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Meredith Patterson is not your typical genetic scientist. Her laboratory is based in the dining room of her San Francisco apartment. She uses a plastic salad spinner as a centrifuge and Ziploc plastic bags as airtight containers for her samples. But the genetically modified organism (GMO) she is attempting to create on a budget of less than $500 (£350) could provide a breakthrough in food safety.
interesting article in the guardian on DIY genetics
Which confirms that perhaps dining-room science is the new garage science. Or kitchen or bathroom science... What will it's physicality be? And what tools will be used? Ardiuno spectrometres? DIY sterile hoods?