Just doing a little gene editing with Crispr.
Crispr—a memorable acronym for the mouthful, “clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats”—gives scientists an unprecedented ability to decrypt and reorder genes, opening up a dazzling and terrifying universe of possibilities. This year, a top national security official called gene-editing a weapon of mass destruction—along with nuclear detonation, chemical weapons and cruise missiles—because it could be used to create “potentially harmful biological agents or products.”
Well now, everybody needs a hobby, right? And what's great is that you can buy everything you need to set up your own lab, down in the garage, for about a thousand bucks on eBay.
