Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life - Boing Boing
Meredith. If she hadn’t existed, screenwriters would have invented her. Tattoos. Gauged ears. A smoker. Black t-shirt. Black leather trench coat. Boxes of disemboweled electronics littering the apartment. Shelves sagging with heavy tomes of sci-fi, coding manuals, linguistics texts and histories of cryptography. The consummate hacker chick before the English-speaking world had ever heard of Lisbeth Salander. Her wet lab was on the dining room table. The setup included a hot plate, yogurt containers, beakers, dozens of small plastic vials and a jerry-rigged thermal cycler, a kind of glorified crock pot that serves as the essential gene-brewing tool in almost all modern biotech.
