Biohacker

An amateur who tinkers with DNA and other aspects of genetics

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They even have their own biohacker, who has DNA sequenced their culture (sourdough starter), to make enhancing bakes easier.

Get healthy - use your loaf; Tempted to start baking bread? Do it - you'll be feeding yourself, and helping your gut, as ELLA WALKER finds out

Of note is a growing worldwide community of "black hat" do-it-yourself biohacker scientists, who may be supported by state-endorsed venture capital with explicit intent toward disrupting public safety, stability and health; and who may operate without regard for regulations defined by current signatory treaties and conventions.

Weaponizing the brain: Neuroscience advancements spark debate

Yet the same technology used by a benign biohacker could easily be transformed into a tool for the disgruntled and disenfranchised (12) to modify existing or emerging biological warfare agents and employ them as bioterrorism.

The biohacker: a threat to national security

Cannon, who considers himself a biohacker, thought this would be a good idea.

Why you shouldn't implant computer chips in your arm

Biohacker Dr Brian Deggar will lead the dissection of an octopus sourced by fishmonger Robert Latimer of Whitburn and Farida Koheeallee, who comes from Mauritius and runs a tropical spice stall in Leeds Market.

Taste may change, but we still love our food; The science behind what we ate and what we'll eat in future

ALS is a terminal disease with very few therapeutic options, so colleagues and I are working on tackling solutions from the outside in," said Ryan Bethencourt, geneticist, biohacker and a founder of Halpin Neurosciences.

Two Citizen Scientists Win First Bay Area Open Science Challenge

A Sydney biohacker apparently found a solution to the age-old problem when he had a transportation chip implanted into his hand, giving him access to transit with just the wave of his wrist.

Biohacker Gets Transit Chip Implanted In His Hand

People can really work on projects for the good of humanity while learning about something they want to learn about in the process," Times Online quoted Meredith Patterson, 31, a computer programmer by day turned biohacker by night.

'Idle' Americans fiddling with foundations of life on Earth from homes!

In a bizarre twist to electronic tattoos that some technology firms are experimenting with to do away with passwords, Tim Cannon, a German biohacker went ahead and implanted a chip on his forearm, making him a DIY cyborg.

German Biohacker Implants Large Open Source Computer Chip on Forearm Without Anaesthesia (VIDEOS)

Individual biohackers also could play important role by self experimentation, like Elizabeth Parrish: they could take higher risk experiments on themselves without legal restriction and costs [68].

Artificial Intelligence in Life Extension: from Deep Learning to Superintelligence

Garage biology, DIY biology, and biohackers are terms associated with a real community of amateur biologists who set up functioning microbiology laboratories in their homes.

Biotechnology: an era of hopes and fears

Why we biohackers think this is interesting because it's a very useful platform.