{"id":20825,"date":"2016-01-17T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T21:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/diy-gene-editing-kit-is-it-fun-or-scary"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:41","slug":"diy-gene-editing-kit-is-it-fun-or-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/diy-gene-editing-kit-is-it-fun-or-scary","title":{"rendered":"DIY gene-editing kit: Is it fun or scary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diy-gene-editing-kit-is-it-fun-or-scary2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the recent article and announcement of Josiah Zayner (CA scientist) new do it yourself gene editing kit for $120 sent shock waves across industry as well as further raised the question \u201chow do we best put controls in place to ensure ethics and prevent disaster or a crisis?\u201d; this genie truly is out of the bottle. Because Josiah created this easily in his own kitchen, it can be replicated by many others in their own homes. What we have to decide is how to best mitigate it\u2019s impact. Black markets &amp; exotic animal, etc. collectors around the world will pay handsomely for this capability and raise the stakes of the most bizarre animals (deadly and non-deadly) to be created for their own profits and amusements.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>BURLINGAME, Calif. \u2014 On the kitchen table of his cramped apartment, Josiah Zayner is performing the feat that is transforming biology. In tiny vials, he\u2019s cutting, pasting and stirring genes, as simply as mixing a vodka tonic. Next, he slides his new hybrid creations, living in petri dishes, onto a refrigerator shelf next to the vegetables. And he\u2019s packaging and selling his DIY gene-editing technique for $120 so that everyone else can do it, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendbulletin.com\/home\/3914591-151\/diy-gene-editing-kit-is-it-fun-or-scary?referrer=bullet1#\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the recent article and announcement of Josiah Zayner (CA scientist) new do it yourself gene editing kit for $120 sent shock waves across industry as well as further raised the question \u201chow do we best put controls in place to ensure ethics and prevent disaster or a crisis?\u201d; this genie truly is out of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,1506,412,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-food","category-genetics","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68823,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions\/68823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}