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You'd need:

fresh fertilized chicken eggs

lab gloves

an egg incubator

a dissecting microscope

tissue culture dishes

phosphate-buffered saline

a pipette pump

10 ml pipettes

two pairs of dissecting tweezers

70% ethanol solution

kimwipes

lab gloves

a steady hand

tissue culture medium (DMEM is fine)

fetal calf serum

penicillin-streptomycin mix

a micropipette

micropipette tips

a tissue culture incubator

a tank of carbon dioxide

ideally, a laminar flow cabinet, but reasonably careful technique and the pen/strep would probably see you through

So, when? Depends if you have Prime really.

The thing is, growing sheets of cells is not a big step towards doing anything interesting. You need to do chemical and genetic manipulation of the cells, and that's the hard part.



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