Name: 【TED】Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking -- you can do it, too (Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking -- you can do it, too)
Uploaded: 2017-05-21T11:20:09.000Z
Duration: 10 min 9 s
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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

It's a great time to be a molecular biologist. (Laughter)

Reading and writing DNA code is getting easier

By the end of this year, we'll be able to sequence

and the fastest-growing technology sector.

and to touch every aspect of our daily lives.

I think we'd all be pretty comfortable with

It's a movement that -- it advocates making biotechnology

not just scientists and people in government labs.

The idea is that if you open up the science

and you allow diverse groups to participate,

Putting technology in the hands of the end user

is usually a good idea because they've got the best idea

And here's this really sophisticated technology

coming down the road, all these associated

and we scientists are just lousy at explaining to the public

just exactly what it is we're doing in those labs.

if there was a place in your local neighborhood

where you could go and learn about this stuff,

with some friends of mine who had similar aspirations

It's a nonprofit, a community biotech lab

they could take classes and putter around in the lab

None of my previous experience prepared me

And the more we talked about how great it was to increase

science literacy, the more they wanted to talk

and as a result, for the next six months,

instead of getting my scientific papers, you got this.

The only thing that got us through that period

was that we knew that all over the world,

there were other people that were trying to do

They were opening biohacker spaces, and some of them

were facing much greater challenges than we did,

But now, three years later, here's where we stand.

It's a vibrant, global community of hackerspaces,

There's one probably going to open up in Moscow,

and the cool thing is they each have their own

that grew out of the community they came out of.

The spirit of these labs, it's open, it's positive,

but, you know, sometimes when people think of us,

the first thing that comes to mind is bio-safety,

I'm not going to minimize those concerns.

Any powerful technology is inherently dual use,

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