{"id":236784,"date":"2010-01-27T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2010-01-27T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:53:20","slug":"hacking-humanity-the-do-it-yourself-biology-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/236784","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Humanity: The Do-It-Yourself Biology Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bioperl-logo\"\u201cI wanted to make a dent in the suffering and death caused by aging\u2026\u201d says one \u201cDIY biologist\u201d. \u201cOf course, there are also DIYers with no ambitions to save the world, who are content to \u2018make yogurt glow\u2019 in the basement for their own personal satisfaction!\u201d<\/p>\n

And meanwhile, Tyson Anderson, a U.S. Army specialist, is engineering bioluminescent yeast to construct sugar-powered lamps for his friends in Afghanistan<\/a>!<\/p>\n

This article profiles a growing movement \u2013 DIY biology \u2013 that bypasses the bureaucracies hobbling traditional research to write their own genetic code and even design their own biological systems<\/a>. (In one lab, the on-site laser was modified from a tattoo-removal system.) But the article predicts that \u201cWe will probably see a rise in the number of hobbyists who treat their own bodies as machines to be worked on \u2013 like a radio or a car \u2013 branching out from personalized genomics to things like DIY stem cell extraction and manipulation, DIY prosthetics, DIY neural prosthetics and sensory enhancements (infrared vision, anyone?), immune system testing, and general tweaking of whatever system strikes the hobbyist\u2019s fancy!\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now there\u2019s even a kind of DIYbio Flash mob, where large-scale collaborations come together to investigate \u201cdistributed environmental sensing\u201d of microbe patterns around the world!<\/p>\n

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