I've already suggested plasmids-as-pledge or optional live cultures. At present they are only planning to release pasteurised yogurt making thus proprietary.
I'll support it when it's A) Live and B) Free/Libre; no patents!
As far as resveratrol, it's also found in peanuts, and it's abundant in japanese knotweed, an invasive weed in much of Europe. The capsules you buy are knotweed, mostly. Bear in mind though that intestinal absorption is negligible, so oral cavity absorption is probably key..and as it's poorly water soluble, alcohol is probably necessary. I take mine by breaking capsule into a shot of cheap red wine and swishing it around!
The lactic acid in yogurt and the tiny bit of alcohol that tends to creep in might help absorption from yogurt.
Hi!
Will you share the plasmids as a pledge?^^
Resveratrol is great!
What would also be kind of nice is the bacterial lux pathway. It is fatty aldehydes (present in human body), luciferase (proteins, won't be toxic), and some activated vitamin B2.
If you open the yoghurt, oxygen comes and activates the glowing. :D
But I read you would sterilize the yoghurt to ensure GMO containment?
I personally would love to eat GM-enhanced yoghurt, especailly resveratrol because I don't drink vine and my body is out of resveratrol :D
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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