[liberationtech] BioHacking

[Yosem Companys]

We rarely see resources like these on the Liberationtech list. However, one
could envision ways in which biohacker spaces could transform development
in emerging economies.

YC


Wall Street Journal: Biohackers' Get Their Own Space to Create

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204124204577150801888929704.html
Dirk Talamasca (https://plus.google.com/u/0/103226166584311556924/about)
posted a BBC HD Horizon video "Playing God"
(https://plus.google.com/u/0/103226166584311556924/posts/AKZmotQuj5V)
which gets into biohacking.  Some of the groups mentioned in the video
include:

The Registry of Standard Biological Parts
http://partsregistry.org/

The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation
http://igem.org/

Amyris, Inc.
http://www.amyris.com/

The BioCurious Hackerspace
http://biocurious.org/

MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group
http://syntheticneurobiology.org/

The video's home site is unwatchable from the US without tinkering.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01b45zh/Horizon_20112012_Playing_God/