{"id":156444,"date":"2023-01-27T21:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/i-edited-human-dna-at-home-with-a-diy-crispr-kit"},"modified":"2023-01-27T21:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T03:23:03","slug":"i-edited-human-dna-at-home-with-a-diy-crispr-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/i-edited-human-dna-at-home-with-a-diy-crispr-kit","title":{"rendered":"I Edited Human DNA at Home With a DIY CRISPR Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-edited-human-dna-at-home-with-a-diy-crispr-kit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I never thought I\u2019d order live human kidney cells to my address, but that all changed when I found out about biohacker Jo Zayner\u2019s at-home genetic engineering class.<\/p>\n<p>You may know Jo Zayner, a \u201cbiohacker\u201d who has been in the vanguard of scientific self-experimentation for years, from their role in Netflix\u2019s 2019 docuseries <em>Unnatural Selection<\/em>. The series shows Zayner attempting to edit their DNA by injecting themselves with CRISPR, a gene-editing technology. The action inspired a firestorm of <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/genetically-engineering-yourself-sounds-like-a-horrible-1820189351\" target=\"_blank\">criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zayner is also known for a variety of other bold moves, such as claiming to create a DIY <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4LOVofScience\/status\/1314957494465122304?s=20&t=NVEqQwxJaCUUgAlgNjhu8A\" target=\"_blank\">at-home COVID vaccine<\/a> in 2020 and executing their own <a href=\"https:\/\/amateurgods.substack.com\/p\/gut-hack-number-two-is-number-one\" target=\"_blank\">fecal microbiome transplant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I\u2019d order live human kidney cells to my address, but that all changed when I found out about biohacker Jo Zayner\u2019s at-home genetic engineering class. You may know Jo Zayner, a \u201cbiohacker\u201d who has been in the vanguard of scientific self-experimentation for years, from their role in Netflix\u2019s 2019 docuseries Unnatural Selection. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}