Comments on: Backyard biotech http://futurismic.com/2009/03/20/backyard-biotech/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Denni http://futurismic.com/2009/03/20/backyard-biotech/comment-page-1/#comment-21688 Denni Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:21:42 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=6619#comment-21688 "modifying jellyfish genes and adding them to yoghurt to detect the toxic chemical melamine" Ha ha, good luck with that. I didn't know jellyfish could metabolise melamime ;) However, jellyfish-derived green fluorescent protein is a standard marker for GMO. The methods are hardly secret, nor are the 'designs' (the BioNet methods&reagents newsgroup dates back to the stone age and most research results in publications with detailed methodology!) It's the applications that are the bitch. Would I want to buy the resulting yoghurt? (no!) Would this work in practice? (No! On almost every level). “modifying jellyfish genes and adding them to yoghurt to detect the toxic chemical melamine”

Ha ha, good luck with that. I didn’t know jellyfish could metabolise melamime ;)

However, jellyfish-derived green fluorescent protein is a standard marker for GMO.

The methods are hardly secret, nor are the ‘designs’ (the BioNet methods&reagents newsgroup dates back to the stone age and most research results in publications with detailed methodology!)

It’s the applications that are the bitch. Would I want to buy the resulting yoghurt? (no!) Would this work in practice? (No! On almost every level).

]]> By: Khannea Suntzu http://futurismic.com/2009/03/20/backyard-biotech/comment-page-1/#comment-21676 Khannea Suntzu Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:26:49 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=6619#comment-21676 Bold statement and I invite everyone to disagree with me: ... the ONLY way to make sure people will not use biogenetic technologies for terrorism, is to make sure the people's level of enfranchisement matches their access to these technologies. Exclusion >> resentment >> a diffuse statistical increase in irrational (suicidal) terrorism. People need something to lose. If they do not have, they have nothing to live for. Some will fade away harmless, some will NOT. Motto: make sure you have access to these technologies so you can hold the world implictly hostage and the world has good reason to keep you enfranchised. Bold statement and I invite everyone to disagree with me:

… the ONLY way to make sure people will not use biogenetic technologies for terrorism, is to make sure the people’s level of enfranchisement matches their access to these technologies. Exclusion >> resentment >> a diffuse statistical increase in irrational (suicidal) terrorism.

People need something to lose. If they do not have, they have nothing to live for. Some will fade away harmless, some will NOT.

Motto: make sure you have access to these technologies so you can hold the world implictly hostage and the world has good reason to keep you enfranchised.

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