The Odin – DIY genetic engineering
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The Odin – DIY genetic engineering
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#2Is there something like hackaday.com for this kind of stuff?
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#3I am their happy customer. I have successfully grown fluorescent yeast, and reproduced the CRISPR bacterial genetic modification protocol. Their support is awesome.
It is also possible to e.g. buy an old qPCR machine and corresponding perishables (I was slightly scared when a DHL truck delivered me a cold box full of dry ice), and run even more interesting experiments at home.
And, you can open an account at Sigma-Aldrich and order chemicals there as a hobbyist researcher (I did, and it worked).
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#4I wonder what the regulatory powers are gonna make of that.
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#5Interesting. So how hard is it to get yeast to make certain substances normally found in lets say plants or fungi? :) All I've heard it's been done before.
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#6I am their happy customer. I have successfully grown fluorescent yeast, and reproduced the CRISPR bacterial genetic modification protocol. Their support is awesome. It is also possible to e.g. buy an old qPCR machine and corresponding perishables (I was slightly scared when a DHL truck delivered me a cold box full of dry ice), and run even more interesting experiments at home. And, you can open an account at Sigma-Al…
Where are you at? I am a hobby chemist and getting a sigma aldrich account is rly hard in europe as a private person
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#7Dumb question, as a layman vaguely scared by easy access to this kind of tech: how easy is it to engineer bad stuff using these kits? (say, drug resistant bacteria)
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#8I am their happy customer. I have successfully grown fluorescent yeast, and reproduced the CRISPR bacterial genetic modification protocol. Their support is awesome. It is also possible to e.g. buy an old qPCR machine and corresponding perishables (I was slightly scared when a DHL truck delivered me a cold box full of dry ice), and run even more interesting experiments at home. And, you can open an account at Sigma-Al…
Where are you at? I am a hobby chemist and getting a sigma aldrich account is rly hard in europe as a private person
Switzerland.
I had to sign all the papers promising them I won’t be using their chemicals for anything stupid, but otherwise they were friendly enough.
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#9Really cool project, just worth mentioning that in some western countries ordering this stuff could lead to serious consequences and troubles with law. I live in Germany and would be afraid to get some of it.
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#10> 70% of the world’s population was killed by NEOBOLA-26 but at least they signed the EULA.
I’m making fun, but this is one class of knowledge I’m worried about. However, outlawing it doesn’t seem like a solution either.