Genetic engineering - a new entertainment for technologists

    Equipment for genetic experiments has become so affordable that every amateur can buy everything they need, collect the missing with their own hands - and start experiments on breeding new life forms right at home. Actually, they are doing this, writes AP .

    In the photo - Meridit Paterson from San Francisco. In the afternoon, she is a programmer, and in the evenings in her own apartment she tries to introduce the glow gene into the bacterium from yogurt so that it responds to the presence of melamine. This harmful substance is added by some manufacturers to food products.

    For some reason, genetic engineering as a hobby is especially popular among professionals from the IT industry. Almost none of them have a medical education, but this does not bother anyone. Meridite and like-minded people share experiences over the Internet. They call themselves "biohackers."

    Who knows, maybe someday a universal cure for cancer, super-efficient biofuel or some other substance that can permanently change the life of mankind will be created in such a home laboratory.

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