[DIYbio] Re: Eating Glow in the dark yogurt

Toxicity of GFP

On Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:12:46 PM UTC+10, phDIY wrote:

If by synthetic organism, you mean one that's been completely generated from a computer (like at Synthetic Genomics) no. 

If you just mean bioengineered: you've already likely eaten a strain of streptococcus thermophilus or lactobacillus acidophilus (bugs used to make yogurt) that have been actively or passively engineered to produce  that yogurt.

as a microbiologist myself, I dont know if I would eat a bio-luminescent yogurt.  There's no information on the allergenicity of the proteins used to make them glow.   the GFP proteins are from jellyfish, originally, but have been substantially modified from their original form. 

On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:38:15 AM UTC-5, Jonathan Cline wrote:

Has anyone eaten a synthetic bio organism?
Is anyone eager to try?
How about eating biohacked yogurt?
I asked this a couple years ago and there were no takers yet.  Perhaps opinions have changed.



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