biohacking

The right way to regulate biohacking may not become apparent for some time.

If regulation of biohacking is too tight, such innovations—or, at least, things like them—might never come to pass.

Some are referring to biohacking as the next wave in evolution.

It is also host to a wiki of biohacking knowledge at collaborate.biohack.me.

More than any other detail of biohacking, this is the one that laymen grasp.

Still, it's a cool introduction to both neuroscience and the nascent art of biohacking.

Dr Carlson, who has a book on biohacking coming out later this year, is a proponent of light regulation at most.

Bio-hack me, forum dedicated to biohacking communications and cooperation.

It is a form of biohacking (qv) focusing on the brain and CNS.

If groups such as DIYbio are successful, the basic tools of biohacking will be both cheap to buy and easy to construct at home.

The term biohacking is also used by the grinder body modification community, which is considered related but distinct from the do-it-yourself biology movement.

There's an abiding open-source ethic in biohacking in which researchers publish their work online, for everyone, for free.

Biohacking, for the uninitiated, refers to intersections of the hacker ethic with matters of medicine, biology, and biotechnology.

Chris Dixon, who has experience at biohacking companies like Soylent, led the investment for Andreessen Horowitz.

For Cathal Garvey, it is likely that makers and hackers will be part of this movement and help to drive down the cost of biohacking.

However, Helen Wallace of GeneWatch in the UK thinks biohacking could be dangerous.

But California-based biohacking collective Science for the Masses thinks they can change that-all through a simple (though not that simple) change in diet.

The researcher, Gabriel Licina, is a biochemist and part of a larger group of biohacking proponents calling themselves Science for the Masses.

Because DIYbio and biohacking takes place on an international level, the FBI is limited in its ability to monitor and investigate all activity.

Stemming from the hacking, biohacking, and DIYbio movements, Genspace has focused (since 2009) on supporting citizen science and public access to biotechnology.

One of the more infamous biohacking incidents took place just a few months ago, when an independent researcher injected his own eyeballs with a serum that granted temporary night vision.

Mr Jankowski likens the current state of biohacking to the years in which amateurs first began working with personal computers, a metaphor that Dr Kelly also uses.

London Hackspace hosts regular workshops for Biohacking, Lockpicking, Amateur radio and Hacking on OneClickOrgs.

Patterson and Sassaman have worked together on a number of biohacking projects and heavily promoted the continued legality of citizen science, both on moral and practical grounds.

These hobbyists represent a growing strain of geekdom known as biohacking, in which do-it-yourselfers tinker with the building blocks of life in the comfort of their own homes.