Cool that diy kits are now available... Unfortunately shipment only to US :(
As for the diy kit, it should be something that people can sense on their own, like fluorescence or smell :D Maybe even the colour? Avery has a gene that produces colour, but don't know if that works outside of E.Coli. And btw, who would eat a blue youghurt .D
Easy to accomplish for the perk would be GFP.
More fascinating lux, but gotta get a gram-prositive version. Plus, you could say lux produces activated vitamin B2, thus it is healthy to eat glowing yoghurt :D
Nice would be having it taste and smell like wintergreen, but this requires 2 genes, IIRC like 2000 bp and synthesizing this will be in the range of 800$.
On Thursday, October 3, 2013 7:00:39 PM UTC+2, Richard Yu wrote:
-- As for the diy kit, it should be something that people can sense on their own, like fluorescence or smell :D Maybe even the colour? Avery has a gene that produces colour, but don't know if that works outside of E.Coli. And btw, who would eat a blue youghurt .D
Easy to accomplish for the perk would be GFP.
More fascinating lux, but gotta get a gram-prositive version. Plus, you could say lux produces activated vitamin B2, thus it is healthy to eat glowing yoghurt :D
Nice would be having it taste and smell like wintergreen, but this requires 2 genes, IIRC like 2000 bp and synthesizing this will be in the range of 800$.
On Thursday, October 3, 2013 7:00:39 PM UTC+2, Richard Yu wrote:
Hi DIYbio,I know many of you have thought quite a bit about hacking yogurt (L. bulgaricus, specifically), and I wanted to solicit your thoughts on a "20% time" fun project some friends of mine and I are pursuing at a natural products biotech startup (http://igg.me/at/yovivo)-Frameworks:We've chosen resveratrol yogurt as a POC/test project. We are actually serious about bringing this to food production stages, so in addition to the usual difficulties of biology of just getting it to work period, there are other issues we need to consider- FDA rules/regs surrounding eating a microbial GMO product, and how to actively engage with other communities that may not be so sympathetic to GMOs. Sure, many of us have a dream of having a milk-based platform for making whatever nutraceutical or med or glowing/fluorescent protein or smell or flavor- what are your concerns about such a platform? what do you think the general public's concerns might be?-Projects:Do you guys have thoughts on specific related projects that might be fun and important? This includes other products (we've gotten about a billion requests for frozen yogurt) or even fun projects we might do to engage with the DIYbio community, perhaps at a space like Biocurious? What are informative things that we can do, and how can we do them, so that won't needlessly fan the flames of anti-GMO sentiment and make our work and play harder?Thanks in advance for any thoughts!Best,Rich
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