Well we’ve finally managed to get our biostore up and running. So that was a milestone we’ve been wanting to cross for years! We’re aware that by only selling the DNA and a lab strain of E. Coli it’s not for everyone, as it requires an already established lab. We took this initial foray into selling biologicals as it has lower capital expense requirements than educational kits or full on biolab setup hardware. As our catalogue of weird and wonderful plasmids and organisms grow, we plan on tackling these types of products.
Some of you may have seen our community post on the matter, but we’re looking for Canadian businesses who would like to advertise with us. We also have a sizeable audience in the UK, the EU and Oceania, and would be open to advertise or collaborate with businesses based there as well. If you think your business’ product would be a good match for our channel, please reach out to us at thoughtemporiumads@gmail.com.
From the Cutting Room Floor
Well, seeing as how long the last video was, there isn’t that much that was left on the cutting room floor this time! The companion video on Nebula is an in depth explainer on how to use software like Benchling to design and order printed DNA.
As mentioned in the video we plan on including more and more plasmids as we do these kinds of projects, and we’re really looking forward to tuning that repressilator construct. Our time lapse camera, though top notch for what we could come up with, lacks some features when it comes to extreme closeups and variable time scales. Well, our prayers were heard and we’ve just received a purpose built timelapse machine, specifically designed for this kind of biological research. We’ll be putting it through its paces and hopefully you all get to enjoy some cool videos!
In The Works
The CT scanner project is moving along nicely and we’re looking forward to sharing some of the imagery that will come out from this! We’re also looking to see what other functionality an X-ray chamber could grant us, and I think you’ll all like where our minds wandered off to!
We’ve also cooked up a few bio-robotic horrors in the meantime, which we’re quite excited to share with you. We’ve made references to these projects over the past 2 years, but we’re finally bringing them to fruition. We’ve made some great strides in our capabilities to grow mammalian cells and as you all know have grown them in common mediums including energy drinks and even beer. But this time we’re looking to achieve actuation and a first foray into grafting living tissues to inorganic structures to act as mechanisms.
The meat robot, though it sometimes feels like a side quest to the Neuron project, actually has some very important connections to it (heh). Increasing the range of cell cultures we can grow, increases what is possible. For example, we’ve found a suitable supply of motor neurons, you all get my drift.
Neat Finds
What in the nautical head wear is this?
Octopus riding shark or shark wearing octopus? We let you decide!
