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换个电灯泡需要多少个喜欢自己动手的生物工程的坚定支持者?显然需要8433个。这就是今年早些时候“发光植物项目”在众筹网站Kickstarter上获得的支持者人数。“发光植物项目”是由两位生物学家和一位贝恩公司前管理顾问发起的,它有至少两个目标。长期目标是:利用生物发的光培育出能提供具有街灯亮度以用来照明的树。短期目标是:推动合成生物学领域的民间创新。修改大自然不再是孟山都公司的专利。上世纪80年代中期,科研人员第一次成功地把萤火虫体内的一种基因移植到烟草中,自此人们一直在对植物照明进行探索。现在,你可以期待着看到万宝路香烟在极少数仍然允许吸烟的小洒馆里幽幽地闪着磷光。但是,该领域的进展一直很缓慢。情况在去年有了起色。曾在贝恩公司任顾问的安东尼·埃文斯看了生物学家
How many changeable light bulbs need a number of do-it-yourself bioengineering supporters obviously need 8433. That’s the number of backers that “Glowing Plants Project” won on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter earlier this year. Launched by Two Biologists and a former Bain & Company management consultant, Light Plant Projects has at least two goals. The long-term goal is to use biological light to create a tree that provides the brightness of streetlights for lighting. The short-term goal is to promote non-governmental innovation in the field of synthetic biology. Modifying Nature is no longer a Monsanto patent. For the first time in the mid-1980s, researchers successfully transplanted a gene from fireflies into tobacco and have been exploring plant lighting ever since. Now, you can look forward to seeing Marlboro cigarettes gleamingly in the tiny sprinklerhouse that still allows smoking. However, progress in this area has been slow. The situation improved last year. Anthony Evans, a former adviser to Bain, looked at biologists