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by crusso 4805 days ago
This is where things are headed. DIY biology is going to explode as GATC printing comes down in price the way that DNA reading has.

Those of us who got started in the early hacking days of computers should see the parallels in this new wave. As cool as computer hacking has been, the potentials of biological hacking - particularly with respect to being able to hack our own DNA is mind boggling (and scary at the same time).