Reduce, reuse, reflycle! Black soldier flies that are already used industrially to process organic wastes could be engineered to biomanufacture a large variety of high value biomolecules and clean up pollution 🗑️💪🪰
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Mercury bioremediation has legs! We engineered animals with microbial enzymes to remove methylmercury in their biomass as atmospheric mercury ⚛️💪🪰🐟🎉
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Very excited to share our preprint demonstrating that animals can be engineered to bioremediate methylmercury! Amazing work by @Dr__Tepper
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Imagine seeing a life size tape worm at your Halloween party 🪱 it's dark and you accidentally step on its tail, it shrieks and awkwardly squirms over. Without saying a word, it leans in close to your face, starts breathing heavily, and for the longest time stares into your mouth
ALT The electron microscopy image of a tape worm that inspired the costume
Worms are pretty in rn with supermodel Heidi Klum as a worm: xitter.cf/i/events/1587379459698…
Bill Gates visiting the longest known tape worm: xitter.cf/billgates/status/15607…
And this neat paper about transgenic worms! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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For #EarthDay, get inspired by 3 #synbio papers that take on environmental challenges:
3. @SynBioNaut and colleagues @Macquarie_Uni @CSIRO engineer Drosophila to express a fungal laccase that degrades the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A.
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I keep hearing respected people go on podcasts or give interviews where they say we can't go to Mars because of perchlorates. This is silly. So I made this graphic. The piece in the middle is really all you need to read.
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"Usually the butt of jokes and objects of revulsion, it’s time we started listening to the message of the Australian white ibis."
Our smelly canary: australiangeographic.com.au/…
The Black Soldier Fly that I drew for my #CoESB conference poster. They have hypnotic eyes AND they can rapidly process large quantities of a wide variety of organic wastes 🪰♥️
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Our poster session is filled with buzz! With 42 posters being presented, the room is filled with research and #synbio chatter #CoESB #ScienceResearch #PosterSession – at New South Wales, Australia
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Very excited to share our work exploring the potential of using engineered animals for biomanufacturing, bioremediation, and waste management. Watch this space - lots more on the way!
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Congrats @EtInNaturaEgo and @Dr__Tepper
My poster for #WasteManagement21 wasn't uploaded 😢maturation of insect synthetic biology could help divert organic waste from landfill, and be a part of the technological innovations that help solve our climate crisis 🗑️💪🪰 youtube.com/watch?v=PlOo2mmk…
It's a "phased array feed" (PAF) because it has a whole array of radio antenna feeds, where each feed's signal is stitched together using some fancy signal processing to make a wide field of view of space! See also: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zlh0n…