RE: [DIYbio] Re: Bioglowtech news

I got some P. Stipticus fungus from a kit and had it growing on a new roll of toilet paper. It takes a while to get used to the light but once u fully dark adapt you can see it glow blue...barely. Constitutive glow isn't seen brightly in nature and maybe for good reason. If you apply topical luciferin ($200/mg) it will glow like all hell as with any plant transformed with luciferase. Its used as a marker routinely. One day we will crack natures limit on energetically heavy glow via oxygen-dependent lux. Till then its all smoke, mirrors, and literally camera trickery. Damn plants and their lack of copious amounts of ATP!

Ill snap a long picture once I get my hands on a nice camera. Until then I can only describe it as faint but bright enough to see contours and details of the filaments and hyphae on the roll of TP. The vibrio plasmid shocked into e coli is much brighter.

Sebastian S. Cocioba
CEO & Founder
New York Botanics, LLC
Plant Biotech R&D