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Biohacking:  You Can Do It TooBiohacking: You Can Do It Too
Ellen Jorgensen's eye-opening TED lecture on DYI genetic manipulation.

Biohacking: You Can Do It Too (TED, 2012; 10 min.) We have personal computing, why not personal biotech? That’s the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIYbio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology. Far from being a sinister Frankenstein's lab (as some imagined it), Genspace offers a long list of fun, creative and practical uses for DIYbio.