When I was just starting out on my biotech undergrad I used to come up with whacky ideas every day after learning something new in biochemistry:
1. Rickettsia Bacteria have an ATP transporter! If we engineer E. Coli with this transporter, we can feed bioreactors with pure ATP and get even more efficiency! (Turns out this is not a real bottleneck in bioreactors, and you’ll likely waste more money synthesizing ATP anyway)
2. Glucose is transported in intestines via a glucose-sodium antiporter protein. Maybe we can find a drug that blocks this and you can eat as much sugar as you want! (Turns out you’ll have uncontrolled diarrhea if you do).
This idea sounds as boneheaded as these ideas. If there’s a “leak”, you bet your ass it’s there for a reason.
1. Rickettsia Bacteria have an ATP transporter! If we engineer E. Coli with this transporter, we can feed bioreactors with pure ATP and get even more efficiency! (Turns out this is not a real bottleneck in bioreactors, and you’ll likely waste more money synthesizing ATP anyway)
2. Glucose is transported in intestines via a glucose-sodium antiporter protein. Maybe we can find a drug that blocks this and you can eat as much sugar as you want! (Turns out you’ll have uncontrolled diarrhea if you do).
This idea sounds as boneheaded as these ideas. If there’s a “leak”, you bet your ass it’s there for a reason.