Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:26:43 UTC No. 16584685

>>16584681
Also interested in gmos but unlike with cloning I am only interested in plants.

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:10:36 UTC No. 16584714

>>16584681
>What kind of university course do I need to take to learn about cloning?

A Genetics degree will help.
Bio-tech courses and gene-editing courses within a Genetics degree will also likely help.

Evolutionary Biology courses that touch on morphology (and hox genes responsible for it) will ALSO likely help.

>I recently got interested in cloning and this might be delusional but I want to work on bringing back extinct species back to life even if they went extinct not so long ago.

It's not delusional at all, there are various companies currently working towards this goal (some more reputable than others).

>Do I have to be a 160iq+ genius to do this type of stuff?
No, not at all. Just need to be competent, and with a strong will to actually proceed forward with this stuff, especially in the oceans of STEM folk who lack ambition and vision and imagination. That's the most frustrating thing desu.


t. a Genetics BSc holder currently working within a lab dealing with embryonic morphological genetics of an echinoderm species.

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:14:36 UTC No. 16584720

>>16584714
are geneticists fun?
https://youtu.be/9ByI9WeXp9g

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:26:34 UTC No. 16584730

>>16584714
Thanks fren :)

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:20:15 UTC No. 16584774

>>16584681
just read the original papers

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:00:16 UTC No. 16584845

>>16584730
In happiness, anon.

>>16584720
Some are, but in my limited experience with them - much like many other STEM-field folk I've met - they don't really seem to think about the potential of what could be (pic related). Rather, they mostly just focus on things that I personally find to be somewhat mundane (such as human medical research, medical screenings, drug development, etc).

Please enjoy this paper from 1982: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6958982/

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:19:01 UTC No. 16584945

>>16584845
>>16584845
Btw do I need like around 6-7 years of school and training to become one? Unfortunately I do not have time for that. I don't want to be a doctor, I want to be a mad scientist making stuff like pic rel. Screwing around with human genetics is where I draw the line, I find it the most unethical thing in the world.

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:24:09 UTC No. 16585062

>>16584681
fuck yeah, cloning, anon, remember that humanity deserves this, genetically engineered 18.00000000000000000001 yo virgin nympho sex slave harems

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:29:43 UTC No. 16585071

>>16585062
Yeah I know it's dumb but kind of wanted to play god.

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:31:48 UTC No. 16585073

>>16585071
>wanted to play god
noble cause

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:03:56 UTC No. 16585088

>>16585073
Bringing back extinct species and making trees grow bigger and sweeter fruits while surviving shittier climates kind of interests me. Does there need to be a noble cause? Isn't only interest why many people choose their career? I am likely going to be a forrest engineer once I am done with forestry technician training since I have gotten interested in wroking in/with nature.
I do not want to work on NWO dystopian transhumanist shit.

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:06:26 UTC No. 16585091

>>16585088
>I do not want to work on NWO dystopian transhumanist shit.
b a s t e
looking forward to your contributions to humanity

Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:23:36 UTC No. 16585620

>>16584945
>do I need like around 6-7 years of school and training

If I may ask how old are you right now and in what country are you located?

I ask because a BSc alone is hard to get employment with... Depending on how you go about it, you'll likely need an MSc at least. There are some ways to speed up this whole process though, but you're probably looking at at least 4 years of study (depending on where you do these studies). Outside of formal education, however, you'll also need to spend some time actually working with the technology you intend to use (to gain experience & competency) so that will take some time as well.

Currently playing the long game myself for all this... Pic related (is a dream of mine to create such wonders someday).

Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:55:30 UTC No. 16585798

>>16585620
>>16585620
I am 23 and in hungary but I also have US citizen ship since both of my parents (divorced) had it by the time I was born there. There is absolutely 0 chance in hell I will EVER afford university in the US while not putting myself in massive debt, I would only be able to go work there if I finish school but I will most likely will be a forest engineer instead.

Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:03:47 UTC No. 16585844

>>16585798
Have you considered the U.K?

There is a Genetics BSc degree at Swansea University that you can take which is pretty informative and not difficult to get accepted onto.

Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:05:38 UTC No. 16585846

>>16585798
>>16585844
Additionally, there is also an MSc degree in Evolutionary Biology within Leiden University of the Netherlands which seems pretty good.

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 02:52:06 UTC No. 16586259

>>16584681
I cloned a plant as a freshman in a biotech cert course, next semester some oroboros and cell culture tech work, awesome course, but there's very little science. All the reports were pretty simple.
Cloning a whole ass animal would require a good grad program and the luck of an opening.

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:24:34 UTC No. 16586480

>>16586259
Can you elaborate on what was done? Do you have a methods section or paper you can share here?

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:44:29 UTC No. 16586842

>>16586480
>Papers for a freshman program from 2018
tech cert, you dont learn more than the tooling and the immediate system you work with.
I am listed on 7 poster projects within 2 semesters since I worked as a lab assistant.
3 on the HHMI phage program(2 semester posters, 1 national competition presentation that got us to DC to present),
>poster over methods of isolating, reproducing, and preparing TEM images of page
>poster over same phage now sequenced and annotated
>competition poster went beyond and did some combined phage and antibiotic catagorization
1 on DNA damage and ELIZA tests for a molecular techniques elective,
>exposed 96 wells of yeast "DNA" to UV damage across living cells, suncreen layers, raw DNA concentration vs exposure time to make a standard curve, and ELIZA tests for T-T dimerization across all samples
2 insect cell culture posters around metabolizing styrofoam in midguts,
>mealworm midgut metabolism, looking at the net mitochondrial activity
>cell culture line establishment, some exposure tests comparing back to the midgut grafts and different exposures to the media
and 1 genotyping poster
>this one was a side project of the phage competition papers I was performing for the micro lab, I fingerprinted all of their phage lines and found a couple mixed or identical lines and purified them to make a better library for future HHMI projects
You get access to a really wide pool of techniques compared to an undergrad lab position, the lab I'm in right now (as an MS grad) won't even allow the undergrads with our insects, and only a few get to do dissections in the same way, would cost way too much to let undergrads work 7 small projects like that otherwise.
biotech certs really are for people who want to touch the techniques and immediately work for $25/h at a blood lab, there's little practical theory benefit, but massive accessibility to all the fun toys for personal projects.