DIY genetic engineering is about to explode: Implanting RFID chips under your skin is so 2017. Modifying your own DNA is where it’s at now, and the ethical questions are only just beginning to be asked.

In 2018, you can buy a “Genetic Engineering Home Lab Kit” for around $2,000. For beginners, $159 will get you a “DIY Bacterial Gene Engineering CRISPR Kit”. It includes “everything you need to make precision genome edits in bacteria at home” for an example experiment, “allowing the bacteria to survive on Strep media which would normally prevent its growth”. And there’s more.

What could possibly go wrong?

Right now, getting into genetic engineering costs roughly the same as getting into computing did back in the 1970s. That means we’re about to see a revolution in do-it-yourself genetic body modifications, according to biohacker Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow, who launched BioFoundry, billed as Australia’s first community lab for citizen scientists, in 2014.