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colechristensenyesterday at 4:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

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

Basically you can design/edit/inject custom genes into things and see real results spending on the scale of $100-$1000.


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com2kidtoday at 12:41 AM

We 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.

someuser54541yesterday at 4:40 PM

Is there something like this in text/readable format?

_zoltan_yesterday at 7:12 PM

My main concern is using fungi. If it ends up in my lungs I'm most likely screwed, right?

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