She wants to make yogurt bacteria fluoresce in the presence of melamine, which is causing a load of trouble in China right now. That seems not only clever, but commercially viable.
In any case, DIYbio and bio hackers are about bringing the hacking spirit to biology, which right now is very capital intensive. Genetic engineering now is like computing in the late 60s: big mainframes locked inside ivory towers and Fortune 500 companies.
> bio hackers are about bringing the hacking spirit to biology, which right now is very capital intensive.
That's what I thought was noteworthy about it. My wife works in that field, and it's night and day from ours. You have to have millions of dollars to do anything at all, it seems.
In any case, DIYbio and bio hackers are about bringing the hacking spirit to biology, which right now is very capital intensive. Genetic engineering now is like computing in the late 60s: big mainframes locked inside ivory towers and Fortune 500 companies.