Survey DiY, gene synthesis in China and biosecurity

http://2009.igem.org/Team:PKU_Beijing/Human/Survey

PKU Beijing iGEM 2009

To our surprise, there is only one among the 17 companies rejected our order, declaring that they can only accept an order from regular companies or professional research institutes like laboratories in colleges and universities. Other companies still took up our order as we stated our “DIY at home” idea, although some of them hesitated a little.

Besides kits and reagents, we also ordered primer from a company, and the primer is required to be delivered to one of our team member’s home. Since primers are cheap, we didn’t cancel the order. Several days later, the primer is successfully delivered.