Do-it-yourself mapping DNA map

DNA detection tool set

DIY DNA, DNA map is drawn. Out of reach of DNA technology has come out of the ivory tower, a biology enthusiasts in their garage to a hobby

International Herald Tribune article parents died, was born and raised in the United Kingdom, Portugal's retirement later to Malcolm much de begin to doubt himself is not a father's own son. Thus, he told the United States, Florida, DNA map gene company (DNAPrintGenomicsInc.) For help. He used a cotton swab in the oral cavity wall scraping some cells, as their own DNA samples and swabs to the company. He obtained results than expected even more shocking: his ancestors that someone might be Indians. "I thought I was 100% of the Europeans," Dodd said the results further confirmed his suspicions regarding the biological father.

This DNA test only spent a lot of de $ 219. While many de just DNA map gene company 1 million more customers in a very ordinary. In addition, worldwide there are hundreds of companies offering similar services. Once seemingly complex, out of reach of DNA technology has come out of the ivory tower, came to you. However, do not just meet, if you are willing to spend thousands of dollars, you yourself can become a make people sit up and take note of biologists.

Garage biological age

Welcome to the garage biology times!

Want to join the ranks of grassroots biologists? you may wish to spend a few minutes on eBay for their purchase of necessary equipment, in his family's garage in the establishment of a molecular biology laboratory.

Just $ 1000, you can buy a set of precision to handle liquid move dispenser and a suite for the analysis of DNA electrophoresis equipment. Perhaps you need to, such as LabX BestUse and professional website around, looking for other necessary equipment. If you can't afford a special instrument, don't lose heart, wait 6 months — will have been eliminated but remains laboratory-to-use instrument proffered. What you need to use chemical agents, experimental methods? these, you can find on the Web site at DNAHack. Of course, in Google, you will be able to find more help.

Despite this, just enter the biological thresholds you mustn't expect in the near future you'll be great to conquer the world of cancer. You can try to use DNA technology to produce a fashionable goats have to please your loved one, or produce a strange bug to show off to the people. Also, don't think Askew, would like to use biotechnology to terrorism is largely beyond the scope of your ability.

In the online purchase of the equipment required to meet your constant practice of skilled level of accurate use and experiment with the required skills are also required to continually try and error can master. You also need the Internet to learn some online courses, or to the University to take a course of the experiment. Although you can find similar to cooking manual as a guide, tell you the purifying DNA or DNA into a kind of bacteria and steps, but laboratory biology is not simple: the more dealing with gene molecular action needed is real skills.

Robots when Assistant

The need for accuracy a with habit it of repetitive tasks, the advantages of the robot is very prominent. You only need to search on the Internet, you can easily find many sells all kinds of laboratory automation tools. Just a few hundred to several thousand dollars, you can buy one looks like a box-like robot, it has a slender arm, able to handle a large number of specimens, hybrid, and allocating reagents.

With these favorable conditions for the hardware, you also need to be able to help you with some of the gene sequence design software have quite understood. These biological information projects on the Internet is everywhere. You can, regardless of day and night to the computer on genome sequence for fine-tuning. Although you may find that different organisms between some interesting links, but if you are able to contact the appropriate database, you may even be able to find a variation with a disease, but the real work is to go to the laboratory bench to complete.

Assembly of DNA control system

Soon, you will be able to from the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of technology of synthetic biology departments in order to be able to use in Escherichia coli "gene symbol". Massachusetts Institute of technology is developing a standard gene symbol library, in which the various gene components can be assembled into a control system for Biological computing, or will they produce bacterial programming make interesting proteins and other compounds. If you take the plants are more interested in the knife — maybe you want tomato seedlings or Apple trees grow on plastic fruit — see BioForge Web site, you can get professional information.

Synthesis of complete genome are becoming more easily. Also, you don't need to bother to personally assemble genome, you can order from the Internet to the entire genome sequences. 2 to 4 weeks later, the company will use express to complete DNA into your hands.

80 $, buy a toy to extract DNA

Garage biology coming in close proximity. Skills and technology are proliferating, genome synthesis and manipulation is no longer confined to the ivory tower, it has even begun to enter the toy market. There is a 10 years old children called the discovery of DNA detection tool set (theDiscoveryDNAExplorerkit) toys price only $ 80 USD, but very powerful feature, and allow yourself to extract, observation of real DNA, but also can be used to draw the map of DNA. Toys available, like biology of adults and children lined up to buy

Buy. "Why when I was younger, there would be no such toys?" a bit amateur sighed.

Maybe a few thousand dollars sounds is not a very small numbers, but compared to professional labs every year millions or even tens of RD, this is very tempting. Of course, few students will be able to own work earned money to purchase the equipment, but as long as a person who rarely spend thousands of dollars in the hands of automobile, boat, or computer, perhaps tomorrow they'll be overcome some difficult diseases or produce a benefit human organisms of biologists.