[nickcarraway]

[Fai Mao]

When I was at UT Austin the computer nerds had modded version of Doom that used a cartoon map of the UT campus. The faces of monsters looked like prominent professors.

[algore]

I wonder if you could do that with spike proteins?

Hmm.

[ifinnegan]

This is nonsense.

[ifinnegan]

Here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DnoOOgYxck

A lot of non scientific bloviating but 3:45 gets to it.

“Cells can function as a programmable display screen.”

You could put a drop of fluorescent dye in the same wells instead of bacteria transferred with fluorescent proteins, as she did, and it’s the same thing.

For a first year grad student it’s an exercise in lab techniques. It has the added benefit of being sensationalized for scientifically illiterate which helps rich rubes contribute to the endowment.

[GOPJ]

>... this isn’t the first time we’ve seen scientists getting Doom to run on crazy things. In 2006, we saw a British researcher running the iconic game on an oscilloscope monitor, which helped birth the meme of Doom runs on everything, or DROE.

Interesting... thanks for posting.