One of the worst questions a parent
can ask a kid when they come back from college is “So where did my money go?” That
question is easy to answer for any other discipline; the biologists play with
mice and the chemists…well chemicals. Kind of makes you wonder what was left
over for course 20.
A
man can dream…..
In the previous modules, it was
easy to see. Bioengineers exploit biology to engineer new tools. We used some
fusion proteins to sense calcium and an engineered plasmid to detect NHEJ. Batteries
aren’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind when someone says “biology.”
I guess it’s not all about the biology, but exploiting biology as a tool (Yay
engineering!) to make anything better.
Sorry
Simba, bioengineering won’t help you here
Honestly, at first I thought putting viruses
in batteries was crazy. I mean I never made a battery before without viruses in
it. We had a hard time making our cathode and had to end up stealing phage
nanowires from another group. Things don’t usually work/go according to plan,
this is science after all.
Sounds
about right
Despite being pretty challenging to make, they
all worked. I was so proud of that small disk of metal. It was something that I
made, something that I engineered. I imagine that’s what having a kid is like.
You know, minus all the things that make kids annoying.
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