GLOW-IN-THE-DARK BEER

Former NASA biologist Josiah Zayner has created a kit that lets home brewers craft beverages that glow in the dark. Zayner began a company called The Odin, which is devoted to increasing the accessibility of science and technology research. Through the company, Zayner has created kits for curious minds to conduct their own science experiments. One experiment is for bioluminescent beer. The bright green coloring comes from a jellyfish gene. It’s “a plasmid DNA” added to the yeast so that it turns a fluorescent green color. When you use this fluorescent yeast in a batch of home brewed beer, it’ll glow under a blacklight. The fluorescent yeast kit retails for $199 and will take about 10 hours of work over the course of two days before any actual brewing takes place.
* Ohhhhh … but I want to drink alone in the dark now!
* Stop – you had me at “jellyfish in the beer”.
* I bet it makes it easier to site the toilet in the middle of the night, too.
* If you’re going to try to teach people science, you couldn’t pick a better lead-in than beer.
* Well – maybe glow-in-the-dark bacon.
* Fluorescent yeast? Wait ’til those infections start.
* This is why the CRISPR gene-slicing scientists weren’t named Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year.
* And I thought that Seattle company that made turkey-flavored soda pop was bad.
* This could make the heaving part all the more spectacular.
* Great, just what I need: A beer gut that glows.
* How did this maniac ever get a job with NASA?
* The space program has brought wonderful innovations to daily life. And then there’s this guy.