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http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/crispr-a-game-changing-genetic-engineering-technique/ How does one learn more about science and technology? I know there are a lot of resources available for some things like computer programming, but others are much harder to find information on. How do learn more about something really esoteric like genetic engineering? Do I just have to work in the industry, or is there a way I can acces cutting edge data, similar to the journals published by universities? I would like to learn more about genetic engineering specifically, as I would like to hack my body. If I could do anything at all, like change my hair color, I would feel very accomplished. I think this would a fun and potentially benificial project to work on in my free time. Also, I am new to Lainchan, so if this is an innapropriate board to post this on, please let me know.

I always use scihub.org or libgen.io when I'm trying to find anything academic.

>>13710 Thank you

aside from journals, the best way if to do keyword searches for the topic you want with .edu and .pdf as some of the search criteria, you will find a lot of student papers and information that instructors just put up on the web. also look for "lab" or "labs" which may give you specific procedures used in a class setting to teach you about the topic. IIRC there used to be a biohacking thread in DIY >tfw OP tries to give himself a hair color changing virus he wrote in CRISPR and ends up turning his skin purple with pink zebra stripes

>>13707 All advice given here so far is garbage. Academic articles are highly specialized articles written for other highly specialized people. Here is an example summary of an article: > We give an introduction into some aspects of the emerging mathematical theory of many-body localization (MBL) for disordered quantum spin chains. In particular, we discuss manifestations of MBL such as zero-velocity Lieb-Robinson bounds, quasi-locality of the time evolution of local observables, as well as exponential clustering and low entanglement of eigenstates. Explicit models where such properties have recently been verified are the XY and XXZ spin chain, in each case with disorder introduced in the form of a random exterior field. We introduce these models, state many of the available results and try to provide some general context. We discuss methods and ideas which enter the proofs and, in a few illustrative examples, include more detailed arguments. Finally, we also mention some directions for future mathematical work on MBL. >https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05047 The vast majority of that is non-sense to me, and I have taken 1 year of quantum mechanics. Trying to learn physics by reading physics articles would be a fools errand. Perhaps someone autistic enough could do it (I doubt it), but if you could, why would you not save time by reading textbooks instead? Textbooks are designed to teach you to understand a topic systematically covering a broad base of basics, as opposed to an incredibly compressed document covering a single incremental advance written to other hyperspecialized people without definitions and injargon. There are also real mathematical prerequisites, to beginning to understand science. Articles will never cover, most physics texts introduce mathematics as needed. So realistically, your are talking about something like a 6-10 year education period after high school if you start prepared - have pre-calculus, and basic science education to reach PHd level. Also, as unsexy as it is, this isn't a path to 'engineering your own DNA'. Access to lab equipment will require a lab that is expensive enough that a human will not own it, but an organization, and its policy will be set by memebers of the organization, of which you will probably be a member by that time. The likelihood that a university would conduct experiments on a willing professor are slim. Perhaps you could destroy your newly emergent career, and untold years of struggle by misappropriating equipment if you would actually still want to at that time. There was a Biotech exec who lengthened her telemeres or some other such DNA modification. That strategy looks like do the same educational process except 6 years for lawyer and then because executive of a company. Neither approach is accessible to the average person.

>>13713 Yeah, someone linked a website where I could download textbooks. I have completed a few levels of calculus, but it isnt necessary for my major so I stopped at Calc 2. I know this isnt something thats super realistic, but I am having trouble finding thorough information on these subjects and wondered if there was somewhere I could learn these kinds of things. A lot of articles I have read are, as you said, very narrow or very shallow. They would require you to either be an expert already or lack substance. The genetic engineering thing is more of an example, I am not about to inject myself with a gmo virus made in my garage.

>>13716 Its a long solitary, and sometimes boring journey. Im on it too. Keep pushing.

>>13707 This guy knows how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

>>13757 I've been subscribed to this channel for a year or so. Its part of what got me interested in the subject.

>>13707 1. Read the article on X on wikipedia, other encyclopedias and reliable blogs/sites. Familiarize yourself with the basic concepts and terminology; 2. Query your favorite search engine for books on X or look the book references for classes on X on a good uni; 3. Download said books on libgen.io and read then until you don't understand something because you don't know Y. Make X=Y and go back to 1. It's that easy to learn anything.

>>14918 This This is how to do it. This is how I do it.

https://www.khanacademy.org/ Still the best academic starter kit online. https://www.erowid.org/ http://www.sciencemadness.org/ These lunatics might be able to tell you more. Hey, come back and update us as you research more. I'm always interested in nootropics, life extension and antidiabetics. I've heard you can separate DNA at home bathtub chemistry style with bromelain extracted from pineapple juice. I remember one maniac years ago was trying to give himself infravision by poisoning himself with a toxic precursor to vitamin A. I suggested a training regimen with various filters and lamps, but he never got back to us so I think he either gave up or died.

>>13707 I'm late to your thread, but someone is selling home CRISPR kits now. I am considering getting one of these myself. http://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

>>16334 Read >>13713 again and save your money. Here is the biohacking thread, read it too >>1596

>>16361 >>>/Δ/1596