Lunch with biohacker Josiah Zayner at MakerBay

Today, we were very lucky to have the visit and share lunch with the Biohacker Josiah Zayner. It was great to hear first person his perspective about his work, the community and how the field of biohacking is moving, in the USA, China and other places.

Here is an hour and a half lunch. Below are some of the things we talked about:

• Josiah Zayner Odin Company
  http://www.the-odin.com/about-us/
• Hong Kong regulations on GMOs
  https://www.afcd.gov.hk/english///conservation/con_gmo/gmo_control/gmo_control.html
• Zebra fish embryos to test toxics in Hong Kong Science Park
  https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1828945/hong-kong-based-entrepreneur-discovers-new-way
  http://www.vitargent.com/
• Low cost biosimilar drugs
  https://www.investors.com/news/technology/biosimilars-rival-biologics-amgen-abbvie-roche/
• Genetic Immunotheraty
  http://www.personalhealthnews.ca/research-and-innovations/innovative-new-lung-cancer-treatment-extends-life
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5932400/
• Assistant Professor He Jiankui and GMO baby in China
  https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2182964/china-confirms-gene-edited-babies-blames-scientist-he-jiankui
• Zika virus and GMO viruses
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zika-virus-gmo-mosquitoes-cbsn-originals/
  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-future-of-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-could-be-in-mini-moveable-labs
• Insulin
  https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expensive
• Ben Goertzel
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengoertzel/?originalSubdomain=hk
• Ubiome Scandal on Boing Boing: “Theranos but for poop”
  https://boingboing.net/2019/05/21/theranos-but-for-poop.html
• Right to try
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-try_law
  As of May 2019, only two patients have received access to investigational medical products through the federal right to try pathway.[34][35] One of these patients is Matthew Bellina, a person with ALS who advocated for the federal right to try law and one of the patients for whom it is named.
• A ‘Grueling and Grotesque’ Biohacking Experiment
  https://youtu.be/uO6l6Bgo3-A

• Open Trons
  https://opentrons.com/ot-2
• Stelarc
  https://stelarc.org/projects.php

Josiah recommends a sequence to build a local DIY Bio community

Basic workshop

http://www.the-odin.com/bioengineering-101-no-experience-needed/

Next workshop equipment

http://www.the-odin.com/bioengineering-102-class-advanced-dna-programming/

We’d love to see you around again in Hong Kong!