The activity of exploiting genetic material experimentally without regard to accepted ethical standards, or for criminal purposes.
Example sentencesExamples
On the subject of biohacking, I recently started reading this blog with the same name as it's subject.
The other fascinating article from last week's The Economist is about ‘open wetware’ which is a nascent and umbrella term for collaborative biohacking.
The techniques for biohacking are already public - they can be found in IP contracts - it's just not legal to apply them.
Because, as Rob Carlson notes in the current Wired, the tools for doing sophisticated biological research are getting incredibly inexpensive, and more people - in the West and in the leapfrog nations - will be experimenting with biohacking.
If you missed the session about applying engineering tactics to biohacking, I'll fill in the gap.
After 40 years, the university is now the ground zero for biohacking where engineers of the future will swap their computers and spanners for viruses and DNA.
Derivatives
biohacker
noun
A biohacker embroiled in a legal battle when local cops found his lab and accused him of bio-terrorism.
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When biohacking becomes more feasible the biohackers will also have very different goals.
As genetic information multiplies and the cost of hardware falls, biohackers are emerging.
But what is to prevent renegades, ‘biohackers,’ from creating their own creatures outside the scientific establishment in the not-too-distant future?
But in the face of biohackers, serious defenses need to be discussed, and I believe that transparency is the most realistic solution.
Definition of biohacking in US English:
biohacking
nounˈbīōhakiNG
The activity of exploiting genetic material experimentally without regard to accepted ethical standards, or for criminal purposes.
Example sentencesExamples
The techniques for biohacking are already public - they can be found in IP contracts - it's just not legal to apply them.
If you missed the session about applying engineering tactics to biohacking, I'll fill in the gap.
On the subject of biohacking, I recently started reading this blog with the same name as it's subject.
Because, as Rob Carlson notes in the current Wired, the tools for doing sophisticated biological research are getting incredibly inexpensive, and more people - in the West and in the leapfrog nations - will be experimenting with biohacking.
The other fascinating article from last week's The Economist is about ‘open wetware’ which is a nascent and umbrella term for collaborative biohacking.
After 40 years, the university is now the ground zero for biohacking where engineers of the future will swap their computers and spanners for viruses and DNA.