Biohacking, popularly known as ‘do-it-yourself’ biology, is a fast-increasing movement of people studying and engineering biological systems outside of the mainstream scientific system. With increasingly available technology and open information resources available on the internet, this places feats most advanced in biotechnology at the beck and call of any curious and determined mind. This paper will demonstrate what biohacking is, ...
Gene drives can be understood as a mechanism for population control in the context of disease eradication. Now, imagine that with the ability to eradicate diseases such as malaria or Dengue fever, there was only one thing: genetic manipulation of the carrying mosquitoes. This no doubt feels more than a little like the stuff of some sort of science fiction ...