Check out this new trend, biohacking, or making synthetic biology at home. I find this both exciting and exceptionally dangerous. The ability to change a microbe to produce a vitamin or compound is common to biological science, and is regulated in labs. At home, all bets are off. Are we on the verge of a great biological breakthrough (like computer hackers provided to the computer industry) or a lot of people getting hurt in their homes experimenting with dangerous compounds and the possibility of unregulated creation of a new deadly disease?

Here is the blog, you can follow the link to the article in the Boston Globe:
http://blog.bioethics.net/2008/09/accessible-scienceunethical-science/

Omai