Dr. Jay Keasling
has been a guest of The Colbert Report
and got nailed in the process

Dr. Jay Keasling studies science-related stuff,
guaranteeing him a one-way ticket straight to hell.

March 10, 2009 NailingEdit

• microbiologist trying to find ways to burn energy
• with the Joint Bio-Age (something, something)
  • sleeps under mylar blankets
• engineer bacteria to make fuel
  • he is a mad scientist who plays God
• stood over a boiling beaker saying "Those fools at the academy"

• synthetic biology been around for 35 years

• turn sugar to ethanol

(God beat him)

• two microbes
  • turns pulp into sugar
  • takes sugar turns it into fuel (or drugs)

• cheap anti-malaria drug
  • a hydrocarbon

• injecting gas into third world babies

• staphylococcus (or yeast) will fly planes
  • yeast infections will be good (not just a burning sensation)

• will be done on a huge industrial scale (not in your backyard)

• paper waste, plant waste, animal waste
  • cars that run on poop

• microbial fuel