[DIYbio] Re: Genetic engineering at home

This is not something I would recommend trying, unless you know really well what you're doing, and what the possible consequences can be - in which case you wouldn't be asking this question here to begin with.

Possible side effects may include inflammation, cancer, toxic shock, gangrene, autoimmune disease, generating a dangerous new communicable disease, or disintegrating a la The Fly minus the super powers - in roughly decreasing order of likelihood.

If anyone really wanted to pursue this, I would strongly suggest NOT starting with something as ambitious as antiretroviral gene therapy. I bet it's only a matter of time before someone tries to give themselves a GFP tattoo with a gene gun though...