All the colors of the rainbow

[joseephuss]

http://inhabitat.com/e-chromi-designer-bacteria-will-color-your-poop-according-to-what-ails-you/

E. chromi Designer Bacteria Will Color Your Poop According to What Ails You

E. chromi is an experimental collaboration between designers and scientists working in the field of synthetic biology. Royal College of Art graduates’ James King and Daisy Ginsberg, together with University of Cambridge’s iGEM 2009 Biology team, are developing a cheap, personalized disease monitoring system that works from the inside out. By color-coding diseases and giving a patient an E. Coli bacteria-engineered drink — much like a probiotic shake — sick patients could soon find out what ails them by simply checking the color of their poop!

 

[rkell87]

http://inhabitat.com/e-chromi-designer-bacteria-will-color-your-poop-according-to-what-ails-you/

E. chromi Designer Bacteria Will Color Your Poop According to What Ails You

E. chromi is an experimental collaboration between designers and scientists working in the field of synthetic biology. Royal College of Art graduates’ James King and Daisy Ginsberg, together with University of Cambridge’s iGEM 2009 Biology team, are developing a cheap, personalized disease monitoring system that works from the inside out. By color-coding diseases and giving a patient an E. Coli bacteria-engineered drink — much like a probiotic shake — sick patients could soon find out what ails them by simply checking the color of their poop!

voluntarily drink e coli huh

 

[joseephuss]

voluntarily drink e coli huh

There are different strains of E. coli. Some are harmless. We were doing experiments learning how to use chlorine to clean water. We measured the E. coli levels of the water before and after chlorine treatment. E. coli levels provided a good indicator if the treatments were effective because the E. coli is a heartier bacteria than the harmful bacterias. If you can kill off E. coli then it was a good assumption you killed off all of the harmful bacteria. That particular strain we tested for was supposedly harmless.

 

[vta]

Gross on all accounts.