# Factories and employees **URL:** \ **Category:** Kitchen\ **Created:** [February 23, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/factories-and-employees/513 "2019-02-23T18:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![dusjagr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/dusjagr/32/24_2.png) [@dusjagr](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/dusjagr)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/factories-and-employees/513/16 "2019-10-16T08:02:52Z")
Hoi Miga et. al… having great discussions here with @tomatofunk about what kinda fun stuff we could let our little helpers or “employees in factories” produce. also looking into other little buggers, than the usual e.coli poopers, such as acetobacters that produce cellulose, we can use lab-strains or get some wild ones isolated from rotten fruits, ananas skin or whatever… > **[Komagataeibacter xylinus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komagataeibacter_xylinus)** > > Komagataeibacter xylinus is a species of bacteria best known for its ability to produce cellulose, specifically bacterial cellulose. > The species was first described in 1886 by Adrian John Brown, who identified the bacteria while studying fermentation. Brown gave the species the name Bacterium xylinum. It has since been known by several other names, mainly Acetobacter xylinum and Gluconacetobacter xylinus. It was given its current name, with the establishment of the new genus Komagataeibacter, ... It’s a very common thing here in the tropics known as [Nata de Coco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nata_de_coco), kinda jelly desert produced by fermenting coconut juice and the cellulose turns it into a jelly. So whatever we produce in them, we can serve it as desert, it’s edible!! See more notes on [hackteria wiki](https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/Nata_de_Coco) ![NataDeCoco_and_Factories](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/hackteria/original/1X/6e97cf071f570f63894dddda4f39362a895a28a9.jpeg) So where are the “employees” and what is the “factory” on this image (taken from [here](https://sherlyandrini6b.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/fermentasi-air-kelapa-menjadi-nata-de-coco/))? and of course the recent results of making psilocybin could be of interest… > [@Was about time... "In vivo production of psilocybin in E. coli" - and NOW... Yeasts](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/was-about-time-in-vivo-production-of-psilocybin-in-e-coli/656): > > Looks like finally some peeps got their brains and pipettes onto this and made it work! Just added 3 genes to a T7 promoter system plasmid and optimized the fermentation conditions… and seemingly getting decent quantities out of it. The paper is behind the paywall here: or available from the ubiqutous [hackteria wiki download files](https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/images/c/c4/2019_In-vivo-production-psilocybin.pdf) we are now planning a more deeper genetics workshop to learn ourselves more about these techniques practically, and as we went through all the simple regulatory practices in Switzerland, we can legally continue with whatever fun GMO experiments on BSL1 level. Still trying to find a good time and date for doing so… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/factories-and-employees/513)._