DIY CRISPR Kit Encourages Home Biohacking

Nov-17-15 Created to encourage scientific exploration, the Do-It-Yourself CRISPR genome editing kit lets people with no biotechnology skills at all experiment with gene editing.

Dr. Josiah Zayner, of NASA's synthetic biology lab, developed the CRISPR kit to allow interested people to carry out their own simple experiments on yeast and bacteria. The CRISPR kit is a result of Zayner’s attempts to encourage synthetic biology research at home, and would include all the necessary components to perform a variety of different experiments, depending upon the particular kit.

Zayner hope encouraging more people to participate in science could lead to a sort of crowdsourced science, with many minds focused on a singular problem—such as terraforming Mars.

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