Square bacteria grown in lab for the first time

[deathboy]

Salt-loving microbe will help study of life in extreme environments.

::nicked off selectnone

Comments

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Prepare to be assimilated. You will adapt to service us. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.

[bluekieran.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

[johnnydarke.livejournal.com]

are they flat, or cubic?

[ex-froodtheh193.livejournal.com]

The article says flat like postage stamps

[johnnydarke.livejournal.com]

yeah, for some reason i posted that, then read the article.


that's probably why my teachers were always pissed at me...

[sibelian.livejournal.com]

>thinking cap<
>thinking...<

I wonder if you could prime them somehow to take up different stains from the same solution... Could you get them to line up in a grid? And fluoresce, with a little genetic tinkering? And grow colonies of said grids under your skin?

:-) idea (c) me, yabass.

[theantipode.livejournal.com]

Bioluminescent tattoos make it tough to run from the cops at night.