Pickle Rick: The Pinnacle of Biohacking

"It’s not a mystery. It’s math."

An insightful but heavy read for my morning coffee. Thanks for sharing.

Wait. I've never tried that...

Paid advertisement by the company... The science sounds cool, and it may eventually work, but it is clearly propaganda.

That looks like a mobile bioreactor- complete with built in 37°C heater and agitation!

Umm. She's holding the pipette that way because she was mouth pipetting, wasn't she...

...Then they came for the ibuprofen, and there was no one left to stand up to them.

Seriously. With my middle-aged aches and pains- if they come for my ibuprofen I'll lose my shit.

Awww. @cnaumann123.bsky.social is this related to Steffen Abel's work? I was in his lab @ucdavis.bsky.social and I remember the phosphate sensing project and Pdr2 mapping. Is he still at @ipbhalle.bsky.social ??? Very cool!

Can you culture the fungus and inoculate on other plants? Or could you do post-harvest fermentations with it? I assume if its valuable, then there's some propagation of it.

That looks fungly, but super cool.

I know it's a negotiation based on the merits of the treatment, but.... How normal is this?

Full press release text here:
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I like to think that HU-331 was named after Hüsker Dü...

It took me a second... hah!

Why? If you can target the light accurately, it could shine on crops to disrupt the photoperiod and trick certain crops to keep growing larger- rather than diverting resources to flowering when the day length decreases. But it seems like an expensive technology with uncertain uses and returns.