Re: [DIYbio] Bacterial gene expressed in eukaryonts and vice versa

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think there will come a point where DIY DNA synthesis becomes possible
> and feasable. It'll probably suffer poorer quality and reliability than
> the existing methods, but it will allow us to make our own DNA, provided
> we're willing to accept a few errors.
>
> That technology won't just be the beginning of "cheap" synthetic
> biology. I think it's actually a critical piece of the future synbio
> puzzle. The costs of failure are still too high in biology; we need
> failure to be cheap or free!
>
> So, hopefully within 5 years I'll have a DNA printer. But don't expect
> them to be coming from lab equipment companies, and don't expect to see
> many government grants going toward research into such equipment. I
> imagine the notion scares the pants of biosafety committees who may be
> consulted on such grant applications. No, I suspect (hope) it'll come
> from us.

I agree that synthetic DNA will be on the desktop in 5 years, maybe
sooner. Having some error is actually desired in some situations such
as directed evolution, so early stage 'sloppy' techniques could be a
bridge to perfection that still allows for lots of biotech growth.

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