Mad scientist thought of the day:
I bet you could gene-edit a chicken to make its eggshells out of mother-of-pearl.
They’re both made almost entirely of calcium carbonate, plus stabilizing organic proteins
Mother-of-pearl gets its iridescence from the specific structure, helped in part by the scaffolding of the specific proteins
I bet you could do it
I bet you could even do different colors and varieties
Pearl eggshells.










