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DNA BIOSPAM is cheap to generate, "potentially making engineered biological spam very common in the future. It could use natural forms of widely propagating genetic information -- viruses, sperm, pollen or seeds. A synthetic batch could blanket the world in months."" " http://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn

DNA HACKING: AKIN TO EARLY COMPUTING HACKING. "And we’re also seeing an explosion in entrepreneurial activity. Just as the Homebrew Computer Club and other garage hackers led to Apple and Microsoft, the biohacker culture is full of similarly ambitious startups, working out of hackerspaces. It’s entirely possible that the next great wave of entrepreneurs will be biologists, not programmers."" " http://lnkd.in/dyAQ-W8 View in LinkedIn

BIOSECURITY is the theme of the next series of blogs; and just as life is programmable, it is also hackable. There are big lessons to be learned from cybersecurity in computing and the internet, and it is inevitable that similar tactics will be employed for malicious ends in hacking life. View in LinkedIn

RISE OF CITIZEN SCIENTIST must be real, since it is a conference topic today. "DIYBio has now become a popular conference topic; it was the topic of the 2010 Humanity+ Summit at Harvard (subtitled "Rise of the Citizen Scientist"), the Outlaw Biology Summit at UCLA and was included in the program of the Open Science Summit 2010 at University of California, Berkeley."" " http://lnkd.in/deKjDju View in LinkedIn

DARPA'S BIODESIGN PROJECT. " ""Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch ... Darpa also plans to throw $20 million into a new synthetic biology program, and $7.5 million into “increasing by several decades the speed with which we sequence, analyze and functionally edit cellular genomes.”" " http://lnkd.in/ddnPGcY View in LinkedIn

MILITARY EYES OPEN SOURCE AND BIOHACKING. "The (retired) eighth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff described a potential future of the military that’s founded not only in open source thinking, but in next-generation user interfaces and biohacking straight out of science fiction ... dramatic evolutionary changes could cascade down the entire supply chain of one of the world’s biggest organizations."" " http://lnkd.in/dMjBeYK View in LinkedIn

“MAYBE BATHTUB BIOTECH will be the next to capture the mindshare of the techie tinkerers. Certainly the technologies are there for those inclinded to genetically edit their plants or pets. Maybe a mouse or E. coli genome becomes the next operating system for hobbyists to profitably twiddle. Perhaps this decade will bring a Linus Torvalds or Bill Gates of bio-hackerdom — a hobbyist-turned-entrepreneur who can simultaneously innovate and market his or her DNA-driven ideas.” http://lnkd.in/dNS2_iP View in LinkedIn

CITIZEN SCIENCE BECOMES WIDESPREAD. "From astronomy to zoology, and certainly in environmental monitoring. But really that’s just one style of citizen science and it has morphed into so many different things, like the do-it-yourself citizen science, particularly for environmental monitoring and mapping."" " http://lnkd.in/dpuYh2T View in LinkedIn

GATES WISTFUL ABOUT BIOHACKING. "Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules." " " http://lnkd.in/ddWxbRX View in LinkedIn

40 WORLDWIDE BIOHACKER GROUPS SEEK LEGITIMACY. "The kick-off meeting for DIY Bio Europe paves the way for amateur biologists to begin international-scale projects, gain greater credibility, and make biology accessible to all. But biohackers have a huge task on their hands. While there are more than forty groups worldwide, many suffer from serious financial restraints and tough legislation restricting their activities."" " http://lnkd.in/dv4HJ8r View in LinkedIn