A Netflix Series Explores the Brave New World of Crispr

A Netflix Series Explores the Brave New World of Crispr

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https://www.wired.com/story/a-netflix-series-explores-the-brave-new-world-of-crispr/

The alien glare of bioluminescent bacteria bathes David Ishee’s face in green as he holds a petri dish over an LED light. Around him, the thick Mississippi gloom swallows the plywood walls of the shed where Ishee spends nights and weekends trying to cut and paste a jellyfish gene into the sperm of one of his 150-pound male mastiffs. The full-time oil plant operator, part-time dog breeder-slash-biohacker is trying to make glow-in-the-dark puppies.

“I had assumed that getting DNA and making changes cost millions of dollars, and that you needed a huge lab and a research team and all that stuff,” he says. “But you’d be surprised what you can find on YouTube.”

A Netflix Series Explores the Brave New World of Crispr

Oct 18, 2019, 1:15pm UTC
https://www.wired.com/story/a-netflix-series-explores-the-brave-new-world-of-crispr/ > The alien glare of bioluminescent bacteria bathes David Ishee’s face in green as he holds a petri dish over an LED light. Around him, the thick Mississippi gloom swallows the plywood walls of the shed where Ishee spends nights and weekends trying to cut and paste a jellyfish gene into the sperm of one of his 150-pound male mastiffs. The full-time oil plant operator, part-time dog breeder-slash-biohacker is trying to make glow-in-the-dark puppies. > “I had assumed that getting DNA and making changes cost millions of dollars, and that you needed a huge lab and a research team and all that stuff,” he says. “But you’d be surprised what you can find on YouTube.”