Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
by margalabargala on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:01PM
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Growing enough viable yeast to bake 10 loaves of bread is orders of magnitude simpler than growing, harvesting, threshing, and milling enough grain to bake 10 loaves of bread.
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Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
by rootusrootus on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:54PM
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It can as simple as doing nothing. You can start your own sourdough at home completely from scratch, and do nothing but wait for the yeast to show up.
Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
by dekhn on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:15PM
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most times the results will be contaminated by bacteria. The knowledge of what was actually going on when you do this was only gained in the past 250 years or so (before that, yeast was known as godisgreat).
In addition to doing it the way you described (put out flour and water in a bowl and wait for it to bubble and smell nice), you can also buy a $100 microscope, collect wild yeast, clean the bactiera off, and grow mass cultures. Sometimes it pays to work at the last step of the industrial, scientific and agricultural revolutions.