Turning Gatorade Into Meat

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[thethoughtemporium]

We tested to see if neurons can grow in DMEM to see if our home made recipes stand a chance of working.

[robyngiesbrecht]

I do love that thought emporium is functionaly a crowd funded mad scientist

[calamatica]

As a cell biologist, I'm fascinated. It seems it’s time to seriously diversify the contents of the refrigerator in our laboratory.

[Vileplume]

This is giving "how much sawdust can you put in a rice crispy treat before people notice?" And I love that.

[RILDIGITAL]

It's crazy to think that common grocery store items could potentially replace some of the most expensive elements in the lab. Very eager to see where this leads to, and how it could potentially revolutionize lab grown meat.

[Dylan-lnqt]

Great video, but I also wanted to add some information about university research, for anyone interested
1. When getting grants Universities first take a portion for the use of facilities, this can go up to 50% but I believe 20-30% is standard

2. Assuming your lab isn't big enough for some major lab equipment like an NMR the university often has a communal one...that you must pay to use

3. The lab also needs to pay for graduate student tuition and wages

4. Now that the majority of the money has probably disappeared you now have to deal with whatever miscellaneous costs appear, maintenance of equipment, purchasing chemicals, traveling to scientific conventions

Academia is basically a black hole that devours money

[NICK....]

future racism will be about if you were a red gatorade test tube baby or a blue gatorade test tube baby

[hlibushok]

Ah, splendid, we're getting closer and closer to finally finishing the ages old task of creating a Homunculus.

[bensmith]

One important thing to keep in mind, these cell lines were started and maintained in DMEM with FBS. This means that cells that preferred DMEM and FBS thrived, while those that didn't died off. With rapidly multiplying cells, it would likely be quite feasible to gradually wean the cells entirely off of DMEM and FBS and onto a substitute. This may be much easier than trying to generate cocktails of growth factors.

Another key point is that the cells themselves often make the hormones they want. This is why many cell lines prefer partial media changes rather than complete media changes. This way, the cells always get exposed to most of the hormones they've generated.

[imstupid]

Guys are really about to put out an open-source generic brand DMEM.

I'm interested now how Aquarius, another Japanese Pocari Sweat competitor, would do. There's also apparently now a "new" Green Dakara, would be interesting to see if it does any different than the regular Green Dakara.

I can help answer part of why the nutritional yeast did so well: it's literally just dead cells. When we brew, we use yeast nutrient, which is honestly just mostly dead yeast. In fact, a quick and dirty way to make yeast nutrient is to just boil a packet of bread yeast for a few minutes. The dead cells contain a lot of the necessary building blocks for new cells to grow, for obvious reasons.

It's really crazy to me that any lab can just casually say they can order some DNA to get printed. Imagine telling someone that 100 years ago.

[SuperSharpBlue]

I work for a college and one of my jobs is to order supplies for medical labs. The reason for ordering expensive supplies is because we are state funded and to remain compliant, everything has to have a justification. If we were ordering tons of Gatorade instead of DMEM it would be hard to justify that a sports drink is being used for a lab setting. Additionally, there is oversight bodies that come around to ensure things are being conducted properly, so if a lab has a bunch of Gatorade laying around where there isn't supposed to be food and drink the school can get penalized and fined. Also, many departments receive annual budgets that are adjusted based on usage, so if one department does not use their full budget, then their next yearly budget gets reduced and any remaining funds are taken away and redistributed across the organization. So, departments tend to buy premium supplies and equipment to use up their budget in hopes to have a larger budget the following year, or at least, maximize the usage of their budget.

[TheLastPhoenx]

"Milk is just purified blood."

I guess all mammals are purified vampires.

[nikushim]

Pocari sweat can be found at most Asian markets both in the US and Canada, with many online retailers also shipping it from local warehouses. No real need to have it imported. Also it comes in its original powder form if you're worried about shipping weights. But all in all its effectively a Japanese clone of Gatorade made by Otsuka Pharma.

[sjamesparsonsjr]

Please call it "Brawndo Serum, it has what cells crave"

[jakoblarok]

Haha! Around 13:00 I was like, "Wow, adding sugar... ha, it's like he's making a meringue" [puts into piping bag] "Oh..."

[Unknown_unidentified]

0:08 YOU GET A VERY DISGUSTING CAKE!!! 🎉

[GammaRayven]

Using Gatorade of all things to grow meat, just amazing. It just feels like an april fools joke or onion article "Mad scientist makes breakthrough cost reduction in artificial meat production, Sponsored by Gatorade".

[BiologicalEngineer]

A few friends in my department (USU Biological Engineering) are working on creating an FBS substitute using subcritical water hydrolysis. They take algae and put it under high pressure and temperature to break down the algae into metabolites cells can use. The goal was to produce a vegan media that Upside Foods could use for cultured chicken. Pretty neat!

[simoncleret]

"After several hours, Joe finally gave up on logic and reason and simply told the cabinet that he could talk to cells and that they wanted Brawndo"

[mkultragaming]

"Sprayed down with alcohol before going into the hood" is a terrifyingly close statement to myself