Synthetic biology as a tool for grieving. Gonna go build an easy clone and savor the moment as a much-needed distraction. Funny, was just explaining what I've been working on to my dad not a few days ago. Might clone in his mito d-loop into my plasmid in memorial...
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Yeah I did this as an art collaboration a while back for the Artist's collaborator's late grandmother. Might do this for my dad as well. Here's the link to the work:
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Can you get any recognizable phenotype transfers? Like eye color to flower color or something?
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Sadly no, its arbitrary code and I made it such that its flanked by terminators so no expression. A genetic mosoleum of sorts. I'm fine with it just being PCR-able.
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Hmmm… any fundamentals making such things impossible in the future? Feels like some strange possibilities here. Reincarnation of sorts.
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