genetic-engineering

Biohacking Village·37 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2018
• Location: Las Vegas

Erin Foster Hefley

"As prenatal testing and ultrasound technology have greatly improved, so has our ability to diagnose birth defects and genetic diseases earlier and earlier in pregnancy. Until recently, our only available options were...

Biohacking Village·37 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2018
• Location: Las Vegas

Anne Kim

Thanks to the use of DNA in criminal investigations, hundreds of innocent people have been exonerated from crimes they did not commit. DNA has also been used to used to arrest suspects in cold cases! In my presentatio...

Biohacking Village·18 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2017
• Location: Las Vegas

Travis Lawrence

Computational methods to decode the second genetic code—the rules governing which amino acids transfer RNAs carry—revealing variability that can be exploited in synthetic biology.

Village Presentations·50 min

• DEF CON
• Community
• Date: Aug 2015
• Location: Las Vegas

Johan Sosa

Johan Sosa introduces foundational genetic engineering techniques, explaining how community biohackers modify bacteria to express fluorescent proteins.