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The classic basic first exercise with genetic engineering is to make creatures glow in the dark. Lots of news has been made by doing this to animals, but one r
by m0llusk 5y ago
The classic basic first exercise with genetic engineering is to make creatures glow in the dark. Lots of news has been made by doing this to animals, but one rather safe and low impact variation is to make glow in the dark yeast and then use that to make glow in the dark beer. Do some searching for "add gene glow in the dark" or some similar and you should find plenty of material. There was at least one open science outfit that was trying to make a basic tutorial for this process.
- ipsum2 5y agoYou mean add fluorescence, not glow in the dark, right? It's not trivial to generate the necessary luciferin/luciferase, but adding GFP is a basic project.
- m0llusk 5y agoYes, but somehow the term "glow in the dark" ends up getting used for this even in some of the more scientific coverage so it may be useful as a search term.