Can I patent a scientific process with having preformed it personally?

For the record no one else has either. It is completely theoretical, but I'm pretty sure it's possible. It requires 1000's of dollars worth of biotech machinery but, of course, I can't afford them. Don't let the word theoretical mislead you, it is pretty simple biochemistry. Will the fact that it requires other machinery or patent chemicals to preform effect whether it can be patent? It's kind of like Recombinant DNA technology that was patented by Stanley N. Cohen and Herbert W. Boyer. So, I know it can be done but I can't find out how.