It opens up that possibility!
On the downside, I saw some website selling "CRISPR kits" and reagents for that process. The prices were really reasonable, though getting the PhD to know what to do with them would be expensive and time-consuming!
I'm not eager to read some new "Darwin Award" about someone buying a DIY CRISPR kit and trying to modify his beagle's DNA, or his brother's!
At least it is still difficult to get those changes into the germ lines of animals! (I think they use tissue culture / micro-propagation to do it with plants). We can't raise people in Petri dishes (yet). Fortunately.
Maybe technologies like this are "IQ tests for species". If we use them to turn ourselves into radishes or Jell-O, we didn't deserve the planet, and will have to pass it on to whatever comes next, bidding for the species name "sapiens".
