The DIY CRISPR kit was crowdfunded 333% two years ago, here's an article discussing it (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mail-order-crispr-kits-allow-

The DIY CRISPR kit was crowdfunded 333% two years ago, here's an article discussing it (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mail-order-crispr-kits-allow-absolutely-anyone-to-hack-dna/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mail-order-crispr...). You can still buy these $159 at Zayner's company, Odin (http://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/ http://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/). It comes with detailed instructions to do a project: modify E. coli so that it can grow on streptomycin, which normally kills bacteria! This story is the textbook definition of "scientific innovation story that's creating mixed feelings": On the one hand, the whole thing sounds like a Hollywood adaptation of Bioshock, the heavily tattooed unconventional PhD experimenting on himself, biohacker stickers that say "Create Something Beautiful", etc. You know exactly where this will end from the first 10 minutes. OTOH, part of me loves this! If you think about it, basic humanity has changed little over the past couple of thousand years, you can probably timejump the Egyptian pharaoh Narmer (c 3100 BC) to today and he will get most of our daily lives: we still sleep, eat meals, fall in love, have sex, get angry over petty stuffy, etc. We have covered tremendous ground with our tools, e.g. behold the iPhone X, but for all practical purposes our basic drives and bodies are the same. I think human society will attain the next level of sophistication only with biohacking.