I'm looking for an at home CRISPR kit so I can genetically modify my kitten to never grow up or stop being an adorable cute kitten.

[ToroidalBoat]

>implying cats get less adorable with age

nah

 

[Am I Very Wrong]

i much prefer adult cats

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

Live photograph of @Chaos Theorist:
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[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Got mine at 5 years old from a shelter. The fact she'll never have kittens and I will never see her as a big-headed kitten hurts my soul.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

A thing with DNA is that it's "interconnected" -- that is, changing the code for one trait can also change other traits.

 

[Cats]

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Isn't your ancient customs good enough for you!?

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

You can use the Fibonacci sequence to compute the highly realistic number of cats without genetic defects

But more seriously, OP, what you're talking about exists, even at the prices you named, but it's used for things like making bacteria survive in otherwise inhospitable conditions:

https://www.the-odin.com/genetic-design-starter-kit-crispr/

Don't use it on your cats or yourself

It's not possible to use this without at least one centrifuge machine and those are thousands of dollars. One gene modification using crispr usually costs over 1k. Then you gotta buy plasmid DNA miniprep kits to preserve your plasmids in case you fuck up, then buy microscope (thousands)- you're already tens of thousands of dollars invested

WHEN DO WE GET DINOSAURS

we alreadey have them but scientists are PUSSIES and won't stop killing them before they hatch even though they're viable.
They reversed the evolution of chickens in the beak and the legs

They also reversed the toe on the chicken so that it's like the dinosaur like in this diagram

Jurassic park is literally in the realm of possibility if scientists stopped KILLING THEM

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

It's not possible to use this without at least one centrifuge machine and those are thousands of dollars. One gene modification using crispr usually costs over 1k. Then you gotta buy plasmid DNA miniprep kits to preserve your plasmids in case you fuck up, then buy microscope (thousands)- you're already tens of thousands of dollars invested

Good thing I know better now. It's like adding a CD player to an existing car then.

 

[grump]

Just asking. Anything good on Amazon? I'm looking for maybe the $50 or $60 price range if possible.

It's not possible to use this without at least one centrifuge machine and those are thousands of dollars. One gene modification using crispr usually costs over 1k. Then you gotta buy plasmid DNA miniprep kits to preserve your plasmids in case you fuck up, then buy microscope (thousands)- you're already tens of thousands of dollars invested

There appear to be relatively cheap kits available online to do toy experiments introducing a fixed mutation to bacteria. If you're interested in that. Obviously doing anything useful is much more difficult and expensive.

Also anyone seriously interested in this topic should look into 'DIY biology' and more specifically 'biohacking'

I have never seen anyone who called themselves a 'biohacker' or a 'DIY biologist' unironically who wasn't a fraud in some way.