TechRepublic | Feb 26, 2018 | ~ DIY genetic engineering is about to explode ~ | .. Implanting RFID chips under your skin is so 2017. Modifying your own DNA is where it's at now, and the ethical questions are only just beginning to be asked .. | Blogger: [Next generation 'Genom-lovforslaget' - de griner hele vejen ned til banken💰💰💰] -- Det kan ligestilles med en 'hyperseksuel forstyrrelse' af Borgens regerings-lakajer, som prostuere sig overfor 'Det medicinsk-industrielle kompleks' .. ".. I Danmark har staten, forskerne og medicinalindustrien fuldstændig tabt det etiske kompas når det gælder genetisk forskning. Alt bliver nærmest tilladt ud fra en falsk forudsætning. De involverede forskere siger, at vi kan slippe afsted med det vi gør i Danmark, fordi vi har så strenge etiske, juridiske og sikkerhedsmæssige foranstaltninger. Men sandheden er den modsatte, nemlig at det kun kan lade sig gøre fordi de etiske og juridiske rammer i DK er så ekstremt vide, - og at sikkerheden så også sejler gør det blot værre. Lovforslaget er blevet forbedret lidt efter al modstanden mod det. Det er nu indskrevet i loven, at DNA-kortlægninger foretaget i sundhedsvæsnet i forbindelse med behandling før oprettelsen af Genom centret ikke skal indsendes til Genom Centret; hvilket kun er rimeligt, da det ville være selvtægt fra statens side at bemægtige sig borgernes DNA med tilbagevirkende kraft og uden samtykke! Men efter oprettelsen af centret er det et krav, at DNA-kortlægninger både foretaget i sundhedsvæsnet ved behandling, og i forskningsprojekter ledet af forskere og industrien, skal indsendes til Genom Centret .." - part af en længere skrivelse fra Oplysning og borgerretsforeningen May Day samt Forebyggelses-og Patientrådet FPR ... |

In 1974, the Altair 8800 microcomputer kicked off a revolution. The kit cost $439, or around $2,000 in today's money. Assembled, it cost about 40 percent more. For between $150 and $350 on top, depending on the version, you could add a programming language, Altair BASIC, from a newly-formed company called Micro-Soft.

In 2018, you can buy a "Genetic Engineering Home Lab Kit" for around $2,000. For beginners, $159 will get you a "DIY Bacterial Gene Engineering CRISPR Kit". It includes "everything you need to make precision genome edits in bacteria at home" for an example experiment, "allowing the bacteria to survive on Strep media which would normally prevent its growth". And there's more.

What could possibly go wrong?

Right now, getting into genetic engineering costs roughly the same as getting into computing did back in the 1970s. That means we're about to see a revolution in do-it-yourself genetic body modifications, according to biohacker Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow, who launched BioFoundry, billed as Australia's first community lab for citizen scientists, in 2014.

"We're on the border of lots and lots of people doing self-experimentation using CRISPR," Meow-Meow told the linux.conf.au open-source software conference in Sydney last month.

"[It's a] really interesting Brave New World. This is kind of where biohacking is now," he said during his presentation. READ MORE