"It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth."
-- Bertrand Russell
(The Pursuit of Truth; Fact and Fiction)
In Chinese imperial examinations, if you did really well, you would be asked to trace back your genealogy to the ancient great scholars. Anyways I guess we're doing this at MIT now too
There is nothing secondary about compounds that flavour our food, cure our diseases, colour our clothes, and underpin billions of dollars of industry..
https://t.co/nKBqDh9md2
First author Hyojin Kim from the @ecahoon2 lab at @UNL_PSI - also the University of Nebraska logo created out of seed oil extracted from their transgenic camelina seeds - it's red because of the engineered astaxanthin. #EngineeringBiology with a purpose.
Today I learned you can just spray mRNA on plant leaves and they'll make proteins. New preprint just sprayed a bunch of green florescent protein mRNA on different plant leaves and found signal.
Great to see our collaboration with @ecahoon2 and colleagues from UNL on the front cover of @PlantBiotechJ, highlighting our project making a new sustainable source of astaxanthin. Harnessing the power of plant metabolism to make useful compounds.