Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking you can do it, too

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 DIYbio 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 DIYbio. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Co