So this guy has been lactose intolerant all his life. He's had a dream of attending university and learning enough to cure his lactose intolerance.
He grows a virus at home using off the shelf biotech tools, presumably bought or borrowed, grows a virus culture, makes some pills, and swallows the pills.
Longer version: he lacks the protein in his small intestines to break down lactose. He can easily find the DNA for the right protein to digest lactose, but how do you make it grow inside your small intestine? He grows a bacteria with the right DNA, then tests which cells in his body would withstand the process of accomodating the new DNA, grows those cells in a culture to mass produce it (which is a virus), turns the virus into a solid and puts into a gel cap and swallows it.
Literally this dude has created a new organism and its solved one of his lifetime problems but this seems like some scary ass shit someone could do in their basement. I don't think CRISPR was involved here at all, but thats a step up in creating bespoke viruses and bioweapons. And it seems relatively easy...
He grows a virus at home using off the shelf biotech tools, presumably bought or borrowed, grows a virus culture, makes some pills, and swallows the pills.
Longer version: he lacks the protein in his small intestines to break down lactose. He can easily find the DNA for the right protein to digest lactose, but how do you make it grow inside your small intestine? He grows a bacteria with the right DNA, then tests which cells in his body would withstand the process of accomodating the new DNA, grows those cells in a culture to mass produce it (which is a virus), turns the virus into a solid and puts into a gel cap and swallows it.
Literally this dude has created a new organism and its solved one of his lifetime problems but this seems like some scary ass shit someone could do in their basement. I don't think CRISPR was involved here at all, but thats a step up in creating bespoke viruses and bioweapons. And it seems relatively easy...
