# Biohacking -- you can do it, too

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Ellen Jorgensen
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Engineering, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_jorgensen_biohacking_you_can_do_it_too)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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 DIY bio 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 DIY bio.

## Lectures

1. [Biohacking -- you can do it, too](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ellen_jorgensen_biohacking_you_can_do_it_too/1fcba9708753), 10 min (TED's player)