Re:The Odin – DIY genetic engineering
by bratwurst3000 on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:58AM
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Where are you at? I am a hobby chemist and getting a sigma aldrich account is rly hard in europe as a private person
Switzerland.
I had to sign all the papers promising them I won’t be using their chemicals for anything stupid, but otherwise they were friendly enough.
Now they're going be like "why is there suddenly a 10x increase in requests for individual accounts?" Haha
Well, their products are really expensive (like, outrageously expensive for a hobbyist). From them, I only bought geneticin and something else relatively unsophisticated; if I can source the compounds I need literally from anywhere else, I'd be better doing that.
Re:The Odin – DIY genetic engineering
by atebyagrue on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:20AM
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Same here. Been a happy customer of theirs for years & even attended one of their Biohack the Planet conferences back before Covid. Everyone that I met who worked there was great. The team really goes above & beyond to make their customers happy and to promote citizen science.
Re:The Odin – DIY genetic engineering
by hummus_bae on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:36PM
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I'm curious about the yeast part. I heard it's difficult/expensive to grow yeast at home, as opposed to bacteria. Are there online tutorials that you used? I've seen plenty of bacterial modification tutorials, but not so much for yeast.
It is also possible to e.g. buy an old qPCR machine and corresponding perishables (I was slightly scared when a DHL truck delivered me a cold box full of dry ice), and run even more interesting experiments at home.
And, you can open an account at Sigma-Aldrich and order chemicals there as a hobbyist researcher (I did, and it worked).