Dec 18 2009Itsa Me, Mario! Now Why Am I In A Petri Dish?
This is a picture of Mario that was created in a petri dish at the University of Osaka in Japan. It's proof positive that the cure for cancer is just around the corner. So, how do you create a picture of Mario in a petri dish? It ain't paint by numbers! (It might actually be paint by numbers).
By genetically engineering bacteria to express fluorescent proteins and carotenoid pigments.
Oh-ho! So now you know. Reminds me of when i used to get my agarose gel electrophoresis on back in the day. You know what I'm talkin' about? I'm talking DNA. Dynamic nuclear acetates. What? Don't question me, I AM science!
Mario Recreated In Petri Dish [kotaku]
Thanks to Ford, who may or may not rock one of those stickers of Calvin pissing on the Chevy emblem.
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Reader Comments
1. naas - December 18, 2009 2:33 PM
I can't even spell out the sound I think of when I see Mario, but it's the sound when he jumps over a barrel in donkey kong
2. Trioxin - December 18, 2009 2:33 PM
hahah First and I remember that in AP bio
3. Trioxin - December 18, 2009 2:33 PM
naas u suck
4. naas - December 18, 2009 2:33 PM
@2 http://bugi.oulu.fi/~heikkiv/chan/gtfo.gif
5. naas - December 18, 2009 2:34 PM
@Trioxin no firstard, you are the one sucking today
6. Woot - December 18, 2009 2:35 PM
1st!
7. Woot - December 18, 2009 2:36 PM
Goddamnit
8. FIRSTTARD - December 18, 2009 2:39 PM
FIRST!
9. naas - December 18, 2009 2:41 PM
I appreciate the of all the things to create using bacteria & fluorescent light, they chose mario. Godzilla was probably suggested but then they'd need a bigger petri dish
10. Woot - December 18, 2009 2:41 PM
Don't make fun of me
11. gizmoduck - December 18, 2009 2:43 PM
that seems completely useful. i like it
12. catch22 - December 18, 2009 2:44 PM
@1
naas, i believe that sound to be... "boodle-lee-doop" (over a barrel) or "poiing" (over nothing)
...oh and FIRST! (gotta keep the trend)
13. Closet Nerd - December 18, 2009 2:50 PM
I use my own homemade protien to paint maps of Hawii..... just sprayin
14. naas - December 18, 2009 2:54 PM
@12 damn that's close if not it, it's in my head now & I was grateful and about to applaud you until....... you stooped down, started grunting a little, shit in your pants, reached down into your shitpants & scooped out a handful of goo & smeared it all over the screen with the whole 'first' thing
dammit catch22, our love is damaged now
15. naas - December 18, 2009 2:55 PM
...but thanks for the mario sound, even though Im pissed about the mess you just made
16. Closet Nerd - December 18, 2009 3:00 PM
@14 then he drew a nice "#1" in the shit smear on the screen.... just sayin
17. naas - December 18, 2009 3:03 PM
@12 come back, I'm not really mad at you c'mon. That's just not like you to assume firstarding is a trend let alone fuel it. Did I go too far with the whole poopin in the pants thing?
18. naas - December 18, 2009 3:06 PM
I'll lick your poo if you come back. I'll lick it with the tip of my tongue.
19. Hogan - December 18, 2009 3:07 PM
Naas dude u crazy
20. catch22 - December 18, 2009 3:24 PM
internet folks dont like me but i will get by...somehow...*bites fist*
actually i was making fun of woot with that first comment
but that firsttard beat me to it
anywhose, ill jsut not lose sleep over anything..
*but the meow mix song will haunt everyone for the weekend muah ha ha ha
....MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW
MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW
MEOW MEOW.... MEOW MEOW... MEOW MEOW MEOW.....
(hey, at least its not barking jinglebells... oops..my bad)
21. Closet Nerd - December 18, 2009 3:31 PM
@20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jKeGyUCJE&feature=player_embedded
22. Closet Nerd - December 18, 2009 3:32 PM
WTF I had to delete the rest of my comment (which had NO flucking curses in it) because of this stupid flucking language filter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9Gm-aRe5A&feature=related
23. naas - December 18, 2009 3:44 PM
@18 heeeeey gay naas Are you in the computer lab or ditching school today?
24. Asperflux - December 18, 2009 3:50 PM
Long live the robots
25. Bass - December 18, 2009 7:00 PM
omg how did they make the bacteria grow in cuadrangular shapes, but yeah, making bacteria express fluorescent proteins is old school
26. cabbo - December 19, 2009 7:17 AM
I feel good because I knew the DNA bit.
Also, cool! No-one's questioning the morals of creating lifeforms to use as art! I'm going to make myself human clones that look like Picasso pieces. Anyone want a clone?
27. Apeman505 - December 19, 2009 7:25 PM
It's not too hard to make fluorescent pictures out of bacteria, provided you have the genes for several different colors of fluorescent protein already embedded in plasmids. (If not, that's not so hard to do either.)
Anyway, it'd be interesting if they put together blocks of agar growth media filled with different antibacterials in each one so to restrict the growth of each colony to that particular square (i.e., the one with amoxacillin resistance would only grow on the squares that are supposed to be red.) It looks like they may have done that. Either that or chop the squares out of existing cultures and assembled them.
28. danbob87 - December 26, 2009 11:19 PM
@27 its actually deoxyribonucleic acid...
29. mp3 dinle - February 14, 2010 4:41 PM
I'll lick your poo if you come back. I'll lick it with the tip of my tongue...