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You can get your feet wet with genetic engineering for surprisingly little money. This guy shows a lot of how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/@thethoughtemp
by colechristensen 7mo ago
You can get your feet wet with genetic engineering for surprisingly little money.
This guy shows a lot of how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium https://www.youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium
Basically you can design/edit/inject custom genes into things and see real results spending on the scale of $100-$1000.
- someuser54541 7mo agoIs there something like this in text/readable format?
- _zoltan_ 7mo agoMy main concern is using fungi. If it ends up in my lungs I'm most likely screwed, right?
- nurettin 7mo agoYes, but most students produce their best work while infected.
- colechristensen 7mo agoThis is the classic meme https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/mmv2ig/lab_strains_unite/#lightbox https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/mmv2ig/lab_strains... Lab strains of things tend to be extremely sensitive and not human adapted. You shouldn't study and modify human-infecting organisms in your basement anyway. While you shouldn't ignore protective equipment and proper procedure... paranoia about infecting yourself with a lab leak isn't warranted.
- _zoltan_ 7mo agoI'd love to experiment with this stuff, just literally have no idea how it would be safe to start.
- com2kid 7mo agoWe actually did this in my highschool genetics class back in 1999! We made bacteria change color by splicing in a gene. Awesome stuff. The (public!) school had a grant from one of Seattle's biotech boom companies.