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#Can Biohackers Succeed At Making'Real Vegan Cheese'?'A group of Oakland California-based biohackers believe they can create real vegan cheese.
Their goal-a cheese made with no animal products that fully evokes the real dairy deal has struck a nerve:
The biohackers then extract that protein from the yeast and combine it with water vegetable butter and vegan sugar (instead of lactose) to make a milk substitute.
Might biohacking tinkering with the DNA of existing organisms to create new ones lead to innovations of a biological nature?
One place for them to learn about biohacking is DIYBIO, a group that holds meetings in America and Britain and has about 800 people signed up for its newsletter.
Strictly, that is not really biohacking. But attempts to construct microorganisms that make biofuels efficiently certainly are though it will be impressive
When a science blog called io9 ran a competition for biohackers, it received entries for modified microorganisms that, among other things,
The template for biohacking's future may be the International Genetically Engineered Machine (igem) competition held annually at the Massachusetts institute of technology.
or living organisms, that motivates many biohackers. Tito Jankowski, now a member of DIYBIO, became interested in toolmaking for biohackers after taking part in igem with a team from Brown University that had set itself the goal of modifying bacteria to detect lead in water.
After graduating, Mr Jankowski was interested in doing more, but found his access to equipment restricted.
Mr Jankowski likens the current state of biohacking to the years in which amateurs first began working with personal computers, a metaphor that Dr Kelly also uses.
More than any other detail of biohacking, this is the one that laymen grasp. And the resulting fear can have unpleasant effects,
The right way to regulate biohacking may not become apparent for some time. The initial reaction of the local police was hardly surprising.
But the FBI may genuinely be wary of biohackers; rumour suggests it has followed up the case by discreetly instructing reagent suppliers not to sell to individuals,
the basic tools of biohacking will be both cheap to buy and easy to construct at home. Many DNA sequences, including those for harmful diseases,
But a strict government policy regulating the chemical components of biohacking might have much the same effect as laws banning gun ownership ordinary citizens will be discouraged,
In all likelihood, the right way to regulate biohacking will not become apparent for some time. But some people think that any regulation at all could be harmful.
Dr Carlson, who has a book on biohacking coming out later this year, is a proponent of light regulation at most. oeif you look at our ability to respond to infectious diseases at this point in time,
If regulation of biohacking is too tight, such innovations or, at least, things like them might never come to pass
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