Article 'Human Cheese' Using Belly-Button Bacteria anyone?

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People Are Making 'Human Cheese' Using Belly-Button Bacteria.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013, 6:21 PM

Some scientists make cheese using bacteria from human bodies
Eleven cheeses crafted with cultures from toes and belly buttons are part of an exhibit in Dublin called ‘Selfmade,’ and they all reportedly smell like the person who donated the bacteria.

This cheese was made with bacteria from belly button.

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You know Monterey Jack, mozzarella and feta, but have you ever heard of human cheese?

Scientists have created a collection of cheeses using bacteria from the feet, mouths and belly buttons of artists, writers and even cheesemakers.

The 11 funky cheeses are part of biologist Christina Agapakis and scent expert Sissel Tolaas' “Selfmade” project, which is part of the “Grow Your Own” exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin.

“Everybody has a unique and diverse set of bacteria living on their skin that can be amplified using techniques from microbiology and grown directly in milk to form and flavor each cheese,” Agapakis told Dezeen magazine.

above are stinky feet and smelly cheese have similar microbial populations and odor molecules, synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis said.

Donors including artist Olafur Eliasson and writer Michael Pollan offered cotton swabs covered with bacteria from their tears and belly button respectively.

Each cheese supposedly smells and tastes like the body odor of the person who donated the bacteria.

While the sheer thought of the project may make you nauseous, you can take comfort in the fact that you don't worry about finding a hunk of cheese made from microbiologist Ben Wolfe's toe microbes in your salad.

The bacterial cultures from people were used to make the cheese.
“This isn't cheese for eating. This is cheese for thinking,” Agapakis said in a talk at PopTech 2013 about “Selfmade.”

Agapakis and Tolaas explain in their artist statement that “many of the stinkiest cheeses are hosts to species of bacteria closely related to the bacteria responsible for the characteristic smells of human armpits or feet.”

Agapakis told Dezeen she hopes the exhibition will spark conversations about human bacteria.

“By making cheese directly from the microbes on the body, we want to highlight these bacterial connections as well as to question and potentially expand the role of both odors and microbes in our lives,” she said.

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You've seen their human cheese, but how about this glowing ice-cream made from synthesised jellyfish proteins?


This Glow in the dark ice cream cost $225 a scoop

Of all the unique varieties that Ben & Jerry's has concocted over the years, nothing can come close to the wonderful absurdity that is this glowing ice cream created by Charlie Francis. Using a synthesized version of the luminescent proteins that cause jellyfish to glow when they're agitated, this gleaming frozen treat actually gets brighter as you lick it.

Of all the unique varieties that Ben & Jerry's has concocted over the years, nothing can come close to the wonderful absurdity that is this glowing ice cream created by Charlie Francis. Using a synthesized version of the luminescent proteins that cause jellyfish to glow when they're agitated, this gleaming frozen treat actually gets brighter as you lick it.

The ice cream seems perfectly safe to eat, but you probably don't want to serve it at your next midnight birthday party. Those synthesized proteins are incredibly expensive, and mixed up in a batch of glowing ice cream means each scoop would cost about $225