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065- Engineering a pre-alcohol probiotic with Zack Abbott of ZBiotics

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Zbiotics - The Probiotic Bacillus Sub-Tillis

Bacillus sub-tillis is found in natto which is a common you know japanese soybean. Zbiotics modified the bacteria to make an enzyme that eats as it breaks down acid aldehyde. Bacteria are three billion years old and they can edit their own genomes by taking up DNA from their environment, then comparing it to their own genome. The idea there is that like maybe this will give me some kind of advantage and if it does I'll keep it if it doesn't all die but that's okay because I have billions of brothers and sisters out there that will live on.

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