Yeah, a "regular university" signs up students right off the streets of Siria.

These are called regular Syrian universities and there are plenty of those.

Sure, and they are happy to sign up any number of ISIS members?

The usual practice in illegal organizations (such as ISIS in Syrian state controllerld areas) is not to freely disclose member affiliations.

To a lesser extent, there are some sort of universities in rebel controlled areas.

No idea how good/bad they are.

Oh they sell a plant kit, but that is meant for practice. They also made a dog glow-in-the-dark. The guys at the Odin have done a lot of stuff on humans too. One of them tried (and failed) to give himself a gene that would have made him a incredibly muscular, and tried (and succeeded) in performing a microbiome transplant (as a cure for IBS). They have also tried (and failed) to do their own HIV treatment.

You're right about the university thing, though. It's never been that hard to get this equipment.

Wait do you have sources for those stories?

Most of their stuff is on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/@TheODINinc

Or just search their lead person: Josiah Zayner

They tried and kind of succeeded in making their own COVID vaccine as well