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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2013
- We have personal computing, why not personal biotech? That's the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIYbio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology. Far from being a sinister Frankenstein's lab (as some imagined it), Genspace offers a long list of fun, creative and practical uses for DIYbio.
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I digg this idea! Like opensource computing but with bio! The major company's are holding us back and we as people if we work together we can get further better. Its all trial and error from which we learn.
+Imad Zeryouh You really would be willing to put technology inside of you that could be compromised? You know all technology has backdoors built in it? I doubt you'll feel the same way when YOUR BODY gets hacked...
Not technology inside me but change the programming of it in my DNA. Like for example if I am bald. I would program in my dna to rewrite molucer cell structures to reform and give me hair. If I had a lab to do this I know I would achieve it. If you know the human anatomy is nothing different then a living plant.
@@ImadZeryouh seriously.. even if they cld do something to change yr hair molecules.. ud be facing other far worse side effects I guarantee..
All d advances in these DNA RNA etc cant compete with the universal life force that made life.. Nature wen messed with, reacts in strange ways eventually.
Also can't u just eat n drink better foods to improve yr overall health n immunity so u don't need people like these telling u its all wonderful to put microchips in yr body for d good of all!!
Also her making light of those who r questioning d safety of all this, tells me she's either lying or paid big bucks to promote n brainwash people to accept all this. @6.30 doesn't she say, having a safety lapse is as rare as snow in ...? Well look wer we r today with d virus from Wuhan lab... not to say that's the only lab doing this.. just research on all this n ull be shocked at d level of craziness n CRUELTY (specially to animals)humans are capable of!
Thank you, you reminded me all this stuff and it made me feel proud of myself.
i had exactly the same thought at the same moment! Checked all comments so far, whether anyone else had noticed and couldn't find a single one but you. Thumbs up.
I love the second laugh after the initial laugh at 1:02 when everyone finishes reading his XKCD shirt! XD
This is a pretty good movement. Serendipity plays a key role in many important discoveries; broadening, not only the number of people but variety and reasons of people doing this, will dramatically increase the chances of the next big breakthroughs to happen.
Thanks ma'am. Awesome talk.
Interesting intro to biohacking, touching on some of the pros and cons of DIY bio. Like the home computing geeks revolutionized that field and the home brewers began the craft/ microbrewery movement, DIY bio holds a lot of promise, for good or ill.
Incredible mind, concept and philosophy. We need this. Count me in.
I giggled at BioCurious
I enjoy these TED talk video's and I'm pleased that TH-cam shows them!
That said how do I an average Joe get started in this DIY biohacking?.....It sound very interesting....and could be the forerunner of Dr's McCoy and Crushers technologies from the Star Trek TV shows.
Love this!
i love your talk
enlightening! good talk
The part where she says snow in the middle of Sahara desert and year 2016- 2017 we had snow in the Sahara desert! She predicted it!!!!
Saying hi from 2021
Saying hi from May 17 in 2021...
Fantastic! If this took off, it would change the reputation science have and help push it more into the mainstream public conscience!
Yeah, fantastic very powerful presentation with NYC accent. Things she talking about a really fascinating - this is indeed a beginning of something big. And indeed we HAVE to pursue this quest - being ethical along the way. And I'd love to have my genome decoded. To learn what's up with my health risks/heredity and be preventive.
Awesome, bringing science to the masses.
Thank you for this video. If I want to learn how to biohack a new miracle of science to take down industrial civilization, I can't think of a better place to go for an introductory lesson. If the Unabomber had had such resources available to him as a young man, just THINK where this planet could be today. You are the biggest gift to the bioterrorist community since General Custer and his smallpox-soaked blanket.
Yeah the ones I saw were in NYC and Baltimore. I emailed them and asked about setting up new locations.
If she only knew how much Corona and 2020 will accelerate the development in the biotech sector - through the roof!
Awesomeness Ellen!
Where in Brooklyn?
when could we see practical application to these diy biohack centers? i mean in 5 years can i walk in hack my genome and randomly change my hair or eye color as easy as the background on my phone? or will there be government restrictions against genome tampering for desired traits in future children? let's get to the real questions here.
Opening Pandora's Box: You Can Do It, Too!
I have found that these TED talks become really intense when there's a dark ambient score from a movie soundtrack playing in the background.
It used to be even louder, its only about half as loud as a nitro methane burning funny car now. It used to sound like the space shuttle was blasting off in my living room when I loaded up a TEDTalk video.
when is one of these labs coming to DC?
You have been my guide..
I want to learn more about crispr technology, the TH-cam Community should incentive more to do tutorials about this technology because there are so many people out there making experiments in their garage with this technology, please TH-cam incentive more videos about biotechnology, should be in the future youTubers bing biotechnology educators
This biotech talk sounds really interesting for me, now I'm wondering if I should go learn more about this bio hacking hardware or bacteria.
What’d you decide on?
That's pretty awesome and exciting.
Muy Interesante!
Can we get a link to that UN report please?
I actually just signed up for the course! See you on the 27th :D
99Questlore are you alive, 8 years later? ;)
Actually, I did study not only biology, but genetics. And you could call it "post-highschool", since, from all I know, compared with german schools, highschools are pretty low-standard. Basic stuff: You can manipulate bacteria to produce foreign proteines. And with that knowledge, it is pretty easy to get, that the bacteria in your gut can - in very few, but suficient numbers - absorbe the neonicotine-encoding-basepairs, produce that stuff in your gut, and, of cause, reproduce.
I'm working on a Master's in Biotechnology, work a full-time job, volunteer as a bench technician for the USDA, I'm married, and we still have a social life.
You CAN do it if you really want to.
Awesome
Good luck to your project Ellen Jorgensen
Maybe this is easier to explain by the hand of an example:
I'm studying in college right now: computer science. Lots of different people: Germans, English, Polish, Chinese, Japanese. Note the lack of 'black' people. And when I ask them what they do, most of them are working or studying on a lower level/degree. Even though they finished the same high school as me. They're content with that, simply because they aren't interested. Perhaps this is bigger/different in America. If so, please elaborate
3 billion not 3 million but only off by a factor of 1000. Still a good lecture and a great new field.
Knowledge is like a gun .... the danger is the ideas in the mind of who is holding the gun.
I would love to see how people answer that question along with what percentage of those people actually understand biology and how hard lab work really is.
I'm betting the people that don't understand biology will overwhelmingly be those that are terrified.
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Check a PM for citations.
Thanks for the citations Kema, these studies are very compelling. I guess I was right, rBGH milk does help you grow. I guess that makes me a fear monger, or was that when I asked you about your preferences in pesticide? I thought it was cute too, :). Enough of that though, it was just nice to see that you are capable of posting a comment without peppering it with insulting/self promoting language. I feel like your really making progress.
Could you figure out what nutritional diet would best suit that person based on there genetics?
Congratulations Ellen!
It is the 'ordinary' people who are Free from corporate restrictions that come up with the greatest inventions and contribute to advancement of our civilization. What the corporations hate, is when someone from these small groups comes up with solution to a problem at a fraction of the cost, where the big companies have heavily invested in and been working on for years. Suddenly, their power and prestige appears on a shaky ground. Hence their effort to block such groups.
she sounds like a supervillain before we know she is one.
pssst farts* yea ok Kanye
i been to Lancaster before. I lived in Lititz. I worked at Heart of Lancaster regional medical center. And at Regional Medical Center. There is no bio hack at those facilities.
I agree with you, but what´s the problem with people being able to analyze their food for GMOs?
It is maybe pointless to make a dialog with you, but I really proud of my education. I am fluent at 4 foreign languages (russian, english, german and polish), I am very good at math (algebra, geometry, discrete math, applied math), physics, electronics, programming, hardware design, computer networking and many other things like logic and boolean algebra. I've got all of this for free. And there are also thousands of students from Africa, Middle East and China studying in my country.
Go Finland!
haha she is awesome great idea and talk
Im into EEG tech. I'd like to make a device that uses your thoughts to control every day technology like tvs, dvds, lights, etc. Im definitely looking for one of these near me. I saw a couple dots near by on the US map.
do you work for gm ?
For me its something like being able to test a product for where it was made. It makes little difference to me if something was made in China or in the US, but it can mean a lot to someone else, and I certainly would object to companies lying to us about it.
In the case of GMOs, if the food is safe, companies don't need to hide the fact that they are modified. And if consumers don't want to buy them, its their choice.
i wish we had one on my island :/
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at 3:28 i would like to know really what kind of lab in the middle of the fuckn libyan sahara ?
Just the tip!
0:15 * :P
how about if you just close your eyes ?
Why is my first thought Deus ex when i saw this title (looks a the icon on the desktop)
Biohacking saved my life. I have a skin auto immune disease, it ruined my life and America doesn't even have medicine to treat it. Through years of research I discovered a cure, a simple skin peptide, and now a year later I'm almost completely normal. This led to me starting my own business to help others, biohacking is needed,. Medicine shouldn't be monopolized.
What's your email??
And the website name??
Are you serious? If so, do you have any info I'd love to read about it.
@@maximusthegreatest Yeah go to the site sent the guy. You can email me there or DM the IG and I’ll talk as much as you want
There could be a perfect diet for everyone. Cause each one of us absorbs nutrients in a different way and at a different rate.
Diet products and specialists are popping out of nowhere nowadays, cause the matter is so complex, no one has the final solution for everyone... or on the flip coin, it is hard to find a product or a diet not working on at least some people.
Genetic studies could solve the matter, at least in theory.
"We have personal computing, why not personal biotech?" Watching this video in spite of the utterly reprehensible wording.
2:40 it's Frankenstein's MONSTER, goddammit.
Snow in the desert happening this year
Can I request a lab in Harrisburg/Lancaster PA?
Thinking ahead FTW!!
Instead we should be providing opportunities for EVERYONE to do great things. People need help and support, but it shouldn't be doled out based upon class, race, or sex. The best support comes from family and friends - we evolved that way, to identify with and be most appreciative of support from our close social networks.
A little different, but very interesting.
We can't live our lives thinking like that any more, it is holding back the potential of our species. With technology like this in the hands of the public more good will be done than bad and we won't need to rely on our governments to produce a countermeasure, we can do it ourselves, as it should be!
Thought it said "We have personal computing, why not personal biotch?" I'm thinking "Hmm... Why NOT personal biotch...."
Wish I could do this! Unfortunately, Biochem Degrees don't mix well with a personal life and a real job! LOL
How about we return to the original of making patents last for a maximum of five years, and after that protect only brands (as in names of manufacturers, such as Coca Cola.)
it's the modern THX
This could be funn
those bacteria are affected by evolution though, which is an extremely slow process. precisely engineering one of those bacteria, however, would be comparatively easy - a person would know exactly how to invade the body as opposed to blind evolution. and antibodies are great, but they're not worth a shit in a lot of cases where something is seriously going wrong (e.g. allergies) :)
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Do you think the average person has a -30 or -80 C freezer at home which would be needed to store the viruses? Do you think they would have the knowledge to change the correct genes to make a pathogen more potent?
All they showed here was some very simple lab techniques like adding a GFP, PCR, and sequencing. It's the very basics of laboratory skills, not research level and beyond, which is what would be needed for bioterrorism.
I'd be more worried about them making a pipe bomb.
I think she did a fine job
Sure, but if you're making it easier to do it (e.g. providing education, opportunities, etc) then you're increasing that possibility. It's like the case with computer hacking, except in this situation we can't as easily build up the defenses of the human body as a counterattack, and the consequence of being infected could now be fatal.
Agreed. We are in the pipe bomb stage of bio right now - a long way from finding the "nuclear" equivalent.
It's because of the way they compress the sound, they know it's too loud but they just haven't fixed it
@ TankTaur is the internet not good enough.
i wana go
reminds me of the seti project.
question:could I be able to clone myself?
@6:55
This example is way out of date, which might be why she used it. It actually was/is a real-world concern... not a speculative or imagined future concern. However a company from Israel called Nucleix Ltd has come up with an authentication process that's very hard to fool. Basically, they analyze the pattern of Methylation across several DNA samples. Real DNA is methylated and unmethylated in patterns unique to your environmental history. Fake DNA is unmethylated, or the pattern won't match
.....omg....its the beginning of the creation of the animus!!!
Snow actually has fallen in the Sahara desert. Only once in recorded history, but it happened in 1979.
Could someone translate this to one of the modern human languages?
Look, everything sounds amazing but all the lab equipment and the reagents comes with a cost. Perform this kind of science is very expensive. How can you ask to financial support when you run your business in a garage? No, really, I would be very curious to know the source of money that fuel these labs.
Aww yea!
Doesn't always work like that. I know people who eat pizza and feel great after. Its to do with what your body can handle. I also know people allergic to garlic but didn't even know. And was fine eating it till they where told they where allergic. They then monitored it more carefully and realised they was. Science is done to get very precise measurements. You can't do that just be eating foods. You might get close. But it will never be spot on. Lot of people have gluten problems and don't know.
Heheh. Having a social consciousness and raising social awareness is the polar opposite of indifference, apathy and favoring the status quo.
That reactionaries dread even the prospect of change is nothing new. :-)
00:15
Sweet...engaging biology with the hacker ethic...DIY "CSI" Kit !! LOL. ;-))
They shouldn't have to label them. I think the interested parties should label food "GMO-free" if they wish to. Don't regulate, let consumers choose! Even if they might choose irrationally: let them buy the same food for higher price, I don't care.
And in that context, it doesn't hurt that people could actually test the food themselves (and maybe in doing so, learn that there is actually nothing to fear)
don't hold back say what you are really thinking, Maybe someday you will be as famous as Custer.
If it was that simple, someone would have done it by now. The equipment, though expensive, is certainly attainable. And if you plan on wiping off humanity, I don't think you'd mind taking a loan you don't have to pay back since everyone is dead.
WHOO XKCD!
I wish that could be true, but it just isn't. Moreover, even if there were zero health risks associated with GMOs, it destroys ecosystems. Therefore, it is not sustainable. Furthermore, there have been studies that show mass production using actual conventional (organic) is possible.
If GMOs are so safe then why have so many countries banned them?