You'd need: fresh fertilized chicken eggs lab gloves an egg incubator a dissecting microscope tissue culture dishes phosphate-buffered saline a pipette p

You'd need: fresh fertilized chicken eggs lab gloves an egg incubator a dissecting microscope tissue culture dishes phosphate-buffered saline a pipette pump 10 ml pipettes two pairs of dissecting tweezers 70% ethanol solution kimwipes lab gloves a steady hand tissue culture medium (DMEM is fine) fetal calf serum penicillin-streptomycin mix a micropipette micropipette tips a tissue culture incubator a tank of carbon dioxide ideally, a laminar flow cabinet, but reasonably careful technique and the pen/strep would probably see you through So, when? Depends if you have Prime really. The thing is, growing sheets of cells is not a big step towards doing anything interesting. You need to do chemical and genetic manipulation of the cells, and that's the hard part.