5Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Genetic Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.4Departments of Bacteriology and Agronomy, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, United States.3Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.2Department of Microbiology, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, United States.1Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.For US$130, you can have a crack at re-engineering bacteria so that it can survive on a food it normally wouldn't be able to handle, or for $160, you can get your eukaryote on and edit the ADE2 gene of yeast to give it a red pigment.Dev Paudel 1, Fengxia Liu 1, Liping Wang 1, Matthew Crook 2, Stephanie Maya 1, Ze Peng 1, Karen Kelley 3, Jean-Michel Ané 4 and Jianping Wang 1,5 * Zayner says the kits will contain everything a budding scientist needs to carry out CRISPR experiments on yeast or bacteria. He's been running an online store for a while now called The ODIN, trying to facilitate and encourage do-it-yourself synthetic biology research at home, and he's currently running an Indiegogo campaign to sell full genome engineering kits so that amateur scientists fans can try CRISPR gene editing for themselves.
Josiah Zayner, a research fellow in NASA's synthetic biology lab, believes that if CRISPR is the key scientific tool of the future, it's the tool amateur scientists should be experimenting with at home, today. It has revolutionised biomedical research and opens up all kinds of opportunities for gene therapy and genetic engineering.ĭr. In short, CRISPR/Cas9 is a radically fast and easy way to precisely cut and replace DNA sections in a living organism. If you're not up to date with how CRISPR gene editing works, take a quick look at this excellent MIT video. Now, one synthetic biologist from NASA plans to make it as accessible as a home science kit, so you can bio-hack yeast and bacteria on your kitchen bench.
CRISPR genome editing is one of the most significant, world-changing technologies of our era, allowing scientists to make incredibly precise cut n' paste edits to the DNA of living organisms.
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