Kerosene Lantern Bioreactor (Patreon)

Building a Kerosene Lantern Bioreactor

Bioreactors are very simple, but extremely useful devices. They're basically a large tank that microorganisms can be grown in, but what makes them special is their ability to grow a nearly infinite amount of the organism or a product an organism produces by slowly feeding in fresh nutrients and pulling out small amounts of product. They can also be used for directed evolution experiments, and so much more. I wanted one for all of these reasons and more, but also so that I had a nice visual to talk about the many bioluminescent microbes I've collected. So in this video we go through the process of turning a kerosene storm lantern into a bioreactor. In a future video we'll build a pumping and heating unit to accompany the build to make this into a fully capable bioreactor. For the first test I grew some E. coli that produce red fluorescent protein and after only a few days of growth the color was clear to see. David Ishee's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftNyK6c9JdIFTQ2TLQqm_g Spider Silk Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx8TcGrCOSI&list=PLZLsjPxmF1BE48luRPtRu39OT4xc5Ak09 _________________________________________________________________ Support the show and future projects: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thethoughtemporium Store: https://teespring.com/stores/the-thought-emporium Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ/join _________________________________________________________________ My Social Media Pages: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethoughtemporium/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thethoughtemporium/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TTEchironex Website: http://thethoughtemporium.com/ _________________________________________________________________ As always, thanks to my awesome Patrons for helping to make these video possible. Special thanks to: Afrotechmods Alex Alex Vanderpot Alexander Halbleib Alexandre Guhur Andrew Gray Anita Fowler Austin Morris Ben Krasnow Ben Reay Bennet Huch besenyeim Cataract Bumblesnatch Christian Bastos Colby Callahan Danny Chan Daniel Gunn David Golouski Ezekiel Dohmen Elliot Turner Frank Harlad Havana Woody Jase Smith John De Witt Jim Mussared Jonas Abreu Jonathan Anderson Justin Hendryx Kevin Kevin Comerford Kevin Forsythe kn0tsin Kush Agarwal Larry Leon Schutte Matt KI7ZTH Michael Chatzidakis narvutar1324 Nico Schlüter Nicolas Pourtalé Noah Pedersen OmuN Patrick Sweetman Patryk Wycech Paul Emmerich Paul Richmond Peter Scott Philipp Weber Pietro Saccardi Rauni Robert S. Ryan Harvey Simon Hallam Skave Rat Tom Bullock tain TheQuickestBrownFox Vasilis Whence __________ Channel Members: Felix Nica L Weiner Kush Agarwal Anthony M Hunter Bagby