[DIYbio] Re: Realities of Biohacking in a UK home lab

Hi Andreas.

Thanks for clarifying about production of GMOs. I also appreciate to advice about synthetic biology. It is not something that I know anything about, so I am going to try to read up on it over the next couple of days.

I also need to look into the concept of an S1 lab, and where my locals ones might be. Is it the same thing as a biosafety level 1 (BSL-1) lab?

Lots of reading for me, thanks for the pointers! 


On Saturday, 26 April 2014 21:06:57 UTC+1, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] wrote:
Hi! 

I don' t know the exact regulations in England, but.... Nearly everywhere in Europe you mustn't produce GMOs. You can insert non-foreign DNA into E.Coli though. Like LacZ to yield a blue colour. 


Given your time and resources, you could do synthetic biology though. writing DNA sequences (e.g. to produce a blue pigment in white carnations to turn them blue), and you then synthesize it for ~500$ or 1000$  and attend an S1 lab where you insert it into a plant. 

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