I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast
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Publicado 2020-09-22
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What started as a dream more than 10 years ago, has finally become reality. After more than 2 years of work, dozen of failures, hundreds of hours of lab work and design time, we've finally done it. We've engineered a strain of yeast that produce real spider silk! This video explains how.
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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dude...
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No wonder Tony Stark looked so impressed when Peter said he manufactured his webbing all by himself.
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"It's [spiders] silk gene wasn't protected by any patents" you guys realize as well how nightmarish is this sentence?
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Sad to see this experiment hasn’t been taken any further in 3 years. This genuinely made me feel interested in science for the first time in my short 20 year life.
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me laying in bed eating cheetos: ah yes of course biomineralization peptides
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mad scientists in movies: I will take over the world mad scientists in real life: I will make beer out of spiders
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Instead of wet spinning, try electrospinning. It should give you aligned fibers instead of randomly oriented ones from wet spinning. You should be able to cut a section and twist the web fibers into actual thread that are theoretically aligned so you get better load sharing on each fiber.
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I honestly didn't understand what you were talking about. But I was intrigued the entire time. I didn't even know it was possible to PRINT DNA. This is some crazy stuff
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Me, not understanding anything but still enjoying it none the less: "Ah, shit, they can't print repetitive sequences, what a bummer dude"
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I'll be following the development closely since, you know, I'm something of a scientist myself...
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I have absolutely zero biochemistry background, but I somehow feel like I understood most of what you explained in this here video. Amazing work, and as a Spider-Man fan, I'm eager to know more about the possibilities of IRL webshooters
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I still can't believe people can write DNA in Google docs. I hope to do that someday.
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"the plasmid has been shared on my github repo for that want to mess around with it" imagine saying that sentence to someone in genetic engineering 25 years ago
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Dude, I cant believe you're making this technology open source. I've been reading about the possibilities of harnessing spider silk since I was a dork in middle school, and remember thinking the guys making the spider goats were cool as hell. I really hope you manage to extract and polymerize silk from this.
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So what is the current status of this project? Have you scaled up the process and/or have enough of a sample to play around with for a video demonstration? Would be incredibly interested in obtaining a sample of the yeast for a related personal project (involving kombucha SCOBY bacteria) if at all possible.
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Rewatching this video a second time and chuckled thinking about how people used to think everything was made of air, water, fire, and earth, and here you are doing this sorcery
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Arachnologists for decades: "If only we could produce spider silk" Thought Emporium: "hold my spider beer."
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"I've become quite competent at designing dna from scratch" Why does this sound so menacing. But dude, youre awesome
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The FACT this all evolved through eons of probability is astounding
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I had a professor in college. This is the kind of project he was barking about in his often encouraged tangents during biopolymer class. Your project is like a customized and detailed exploration that goes well beyond what he could elaborate on in class. Thank you for peaking my interest!
