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Biohacker Josiah Zayner wants to teach everyone DIY genetic engineering

Armed with his PhD in biophysics, Josiah Zayner is a biohacker, someone who experiments on his own body and other organisms outside of traditional labs and institutions. He left a research fellowship at NASA to start a company called The ODIN in Oakland, California, where he sells do-it-yourself kits for CRISPR, the gene editing technology, and holds classes to teach people how to genetically modify bacteria, frogs, and other organisms.

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