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Today, Explained

Don't try CRISPR at home

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Biohackers treat their bodies like a science project. But should they be allowed to edit their own DNA at home? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Joss Bong, Senior Video Producer at Box, filling in for Sean Rommas from.

0:10.0

Today, we are genetically modified, a living organism with a doing-yourself crisp-kid

0:23.8

that we bought online.

0:25.5

We sell kids and supplies and teach classes that teach people with no experience in science,

0:31.5

how to do genetic engineering in their own home.

0:34.8

And we hope that you don't create zombies.

0:37.4

This guy is an actual idiot because one, it's like not safe to inject yourself.

0:40.9

Like, you have to have a lot of money to have all the tools for that anyway, so it's

0:44.0

like not really applicable to the normal everyday peasants.

0:46.8

I guess.

0:47.8

It's not applicable to us.

0:51.6

California is the first date to try to crack down on these at-home biohacking kits.

0:56.3

So, Gaul Samuel has written a lot about biohacking for future perfect at-box.

1:03.9

So biohacking is this really broad amorphous term that can apply to a bunch of stuff,

1:09.7

but the most common way that it gets used is to refer to people who are experimenting on their own

1:16.0

bodies with the hope of, quote-unquote, upgrading or optimizing their physical or cognitive performance.

1:23.4

And this is outside of traditional labs or universities and stuff like that.

1:29.2

Okay.

1:29.7

Am I biohacking when I come into the office and get a cup of coffee to make myself smarter?

1:34.0

Yeah, so I just did that a few moments ago.

1:36.8

And the thing about biohacking, right, is it's a term that theoretically a ton of common activities

1:43.8

we do daily could fall under that heading.

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