Synbio News

May 12, 2009

In Attics and Closets, ‘Biohackers’ Discover Their Inner Frankenstein

The Wall Street Journal

In Massachusetts, a young woman makes genetically modified E. coli in a closet she converted into a home lab. A part-time DJ in Berkeley, Calif., works in his attic to cultivate viruses extracted from sewage…..

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