How to DNA-Hack Yogurt into Prozac

Breakfast can be a middling depressing ordeal , especially on these cold , sullen dawning . Why not genetically organize your yogurt to turn it into into a pharmaceutics - grade anti - depressent ? That ought cheer the process up . Here ’s how to do it .

Talking at an eventorganized by Next Nature , Tuur van Balenguides you through the unconscious process in this video . The summons takes four - to - five days , and will see you put in opened - source DNA computer code , enjoin off the cyberspace , into a bacterial cell culture . You might take to buy a few slice of kit off eBay , certainly — in particular acentrifugeand aelectroporator — but the process is decidedly realizable , if not advisable , in your own home .

While he makes it sounds easy — and actually , getting DNA into a well - studied bacterial cell is passably easy — some of the theory behind the process might take you longer to get your head round . In particular , plan a functional , utilitarian and good cistron chronological succession is n’t comfortable . But that does n’t matter : you could just borrow van Balen ’s in orderliness to make your own Orange River - colored Prozac yogurt . [ Next NatureviaScientific American ]