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March 4, 2020
When Alchemy calls I am knee deep in sequencing data for the lab samples in the experimental rice crop. The first field tests are coming up too few months. It would be nice to nail down the chromatin-opening region (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics) that over-expresses the vitamin cartridge that we inserted into the genome. Monitoring the expression during the test would give that much more data to improve the next crop. As soon as I know the situation in Tokyo, my heart drops. Our "ultra-rice", as the media has already dubbed it, would be perfect for the food shortages...and won't be anywhere near ready for another five years. And even that estimate assumes that the cross-pollination data with the wild-type rice was sufficiently low to allow approval by the UN GMO Oversight Committee (UNGOC). No, what Tokyo needs is help right now. Well, fertilization and irrigation techniques I have learned that help modified rice to grow will work just fine on wild-type rice. Talking to the people there will help provide the insight I need to figure out the rest.
With a few taps and strokes of my fingers on the screen of my electronic lab notebook (http://www.labtrack.com/), I instruct the pipettorbot to conduct a few more sequencing reactions on the samples and send instructions to my students. The project is far enough along that they can continue without me, and they can always reach me via instant messaging. God bless satellite up-links. I catch the next boat off the International Floating Laboratory and then fly from Mumbai to Tokyo. On the plane, I am already trying to reduce my agriculture tips to catchy slogans. I don't bother trying to rhyme them, since I will have to consult with local translators anyway.
With a few taps and strokes of my fingers on the screen of my electronic lab notebook (http://www.labtrack.com/), I instruct the pipettorbot to conduct a few more sequencing reactions on the samples and send instructions to my students. The project is far enough along that they can continue without me, and they can always reach me via instant messaging. God bless satellite up-links. I catch the next boat off the International Floating Laboratory and then fly from Mumbai to Tokyo. On the plane, I am already trying to reduce my agriculture tips to catchy slogans. I don't bother trying to rhyme them, since I will have to consult with local translators anyway.
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Comment by Amos Meeks on March 5, 2010 at 11:54am
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Do you know of Norman Borlaug? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
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Comment by Joanna Chaplin on March 5, 2010 at 3:24pm
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I only know a little about him. He appears to be one of many visionary scientists trying to increase the nutrition/resources ratio for food crops.
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Not trying anymore. He died this past year. He's credited with being the father of the Green Revolution and for saving over a billion lives from starvation through his work. I suggest you read that wikipedia article.
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I have read it now in full. I know my imagination in this post focused on food crops, but honestly, I'm pretty far from being able to follow in his or other scientists' footsteps. I have a bachelors of science and am stuggling to go back for a masters and possibly PHD. From the perspective of armchair science I know how to talk a good game, but I don't yet know how to actually make a cartridge of any useful gene or how to actually transfect rice or wheat or anything. I don't even know if I'll stick with the company I work for, which doesn't do very much genetic modification. I presented one possible future.
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Absolutely. I find him to be great inspiration though, whether or not you want to do anything with plants. My interests are in materials science and engineering, but his work has still been a great inspiration in my life since I first learned about him.
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