{"id":815,"date":"2014-09-10T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2014-10-19T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:19:52","slug":"biohackers-take-a-diy-approach-to-our-biological-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Biohackers Take DIY Approach to Biological Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/innovation\/scientific-experiments\/biohacking.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fe\/Neil_Harbisson_cyborg.jpg\/180px-Neil_Harbisson_cyborg.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Neil Harbisson\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Harbisson, cyborg. Photo by Moon Ribas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not terribly long ago, do-it-yourself projects were the province of shade-tree mechanics and people who kept wood lathes in their garages. They dealt with grease and iron, wood and wiring, and left anything biological to the experts.<\/p>\n<p>But today, body-modifying grinders implant jury-rigged biotech via the kitchen cutting board. Elsewhere, basement biohackers collaborate to build a better biological mousetrap, while volunteers teach basic genomics in community biotech spaces. Little by little, small pockets of enterprising people are working to make the long-promised post-human, cyborg, genomic future a reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/innovation\/scientific-experiments\/biohacking.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Biohacking Works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not terribly long ago, do-it-yourself projects were the province of shade-tree mechanics and people who kept wood lathes in their garages. They dealt with grease and iron, wood and wiring, and left anything biological to the experts. But today, body-modifying grinders implant jury-rigged biotech via the kitchen cutting board. Elsewhere, basement biohackers collaborate to build &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biohackers Take DIY Approach to Biological Future<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,63,94,46,84,82,31,73,67,475,3,13,207],"tags":[909,906,910,908,907,632,644,911,905,645,416],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-consumer","category-culture","category-engineering","category-gadgets","category-genetics","category-health","category-how-to","category-materials","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","category-science","category-technology","category-weird","tag-biobricks","tag-biohacking","tag-bioproofing","tag-cybernetics","tag-cyborg","tag-diy","tag-dna","tag-genomics","tag-grinding","tag-igem","tag-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}