The concept

The biohacking community is growing and people are already altering their own bodies by implanting do-it-yourself devices or introducing chemicals into the body to enhance or change their bodies functionality. These people are also referred as “Grinders”. They are people who apply the hacker ethic to improve their own bodies. There are multiple communities and websites with forums and wikis such as https://biohack.me/.

These alterations are not regulated, FDA is not involved and “Grinders” end up doing surgeries to themselves or going to clandestine surgeons which end up with really bad results such as infections or amputations.

The change

• Access to basic rights such a qualified person that can perform the surgery (legalize it as part of cosmetic/plastic surgery).
• Research centers where they investigate what are the effects of biohacking and implantable do-it-yourself devices.

Why is this change desirable?

• Avoid self-harming, marginalization, increase social acceptance and research development around biohacking.
• Birth control implants prevent pregnancy for up to 4 years & 1 in 3 people with the implant stop getting their periods at all after a year. That is a way of altering our body, we are already biotech cyborgs. We can pick if we want to have period at all. Where is the boundary between that and biohacking? Where is the line between a legal plastic breast surgery and an illegal embedding of a heart rate sensor in that breast implant?

Design & Requirements

• Legalize grinders surgery as part of cosmetic/plastic surgery.
• Train medical professionals
• Universal Declaration of Biotech Cyborg Rights:
• The “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world” as proclaimed in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Strong encryption (and end-to-end encryption) is a basic human right as it is a necessary mechanism for safeguarding the integrity of the biotech cyborg and a prerequisite for a person in the digital age.
• Human beings in the digital age use digital technologies to extend their minds and thereby their selves.
• The digital organs of a human being can reside both within (implants) and without (explants) their biological borders.
• The boundaries of human beings in the digital age extend beyond their biological boundaries to encompass the greater boundary of their cyborg selves and include the digital organs by which they extend themselves.

Assumptions & Risks of “Success”

If this becomes commercially feasible, big tech companies will design implants that will sync with your phone. They could be actively exploited by healthcare insurance companies to incentivise a more active lifestyle. Dilemmas of what is being a human. Is this playing God and going beyond our natural abilities? There might be societal changes that this progression imposes (e.g, changes in health insurances, education,.)

The concept

Reading and annotating the sequence files for a DNA molecule. Isolating that DNA from cells, running an enzymatic reaction on it, and showing the changes made.

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How many molecules of amino acids do you take with a piece of 500 grams of meat?

• 1 amino acid is ~100 Daltons 500 grams = 3.011e+26 Daltons Therefore, (3.011e^26)/100 = 3.011e^24 amino acids in 500 grams of meat.

Smell Protein

The human nose has approximately 400 olfactory receptors. Interestingly, we have a couple of olfactory receptors in the male sperm that detect smell molecules from the female eggs. For example, hOR17-4. Structure: rhodopsin from RCSBm- check protein model portal website for any models for the OR.

Olfactory Receptors and the Organization of the Olfactory System

Amino acid sequence of the protein.

Here and here are links to the Protein Structure I selected. An


>sp|P08100|OPSD_HUMAN Rhodopsin OS=Homo sapiens OX=9606 GN=RHO PE=1 SV=1 MNGTEGPNFYVPFSNATGVVRSPFEYPQYYLAEPWQFSMLAAYMFLLIVLGFPINFLTLY VTVQHKKLRTPLNYILLNLAVADLFMVLGGFTSTLYTSLHGYFVFGPTGCNLEGFFATLG GEIALWSLVVLAIERYVVVCKPMSNFRFGENHAIMGVAFTWVMALACAAPPLAGWSRYIP EGLQCSCGIDYYTLKPEVNNESFVIYMFVVHFTIPMIIIFFCYGQLVFTVKEAAAQQQES ATTQKAEKEVTRMVIIMVIAFLICWVPYASVAFYIFTHQGSNFGPIFMTIPAFFAKSAAI YNPVIYIMMNKQFRNCMLTTICCGKNPLGDDEASATVSKTETSQVAPA



More info about the protein

Longitude: 348

Most frequent amino acid: A

{'E': 16, 'L': 29, 'H': 5, 'R': 7, 'I': 24, 'S': 17, 'V': 30, 'T': 24, 'F': 30, 'D': 4, 'N': 16, 'P': 20, 'K': 11, 'A': 32, 'C': 10, 'G': 22, 'M': 15, 'Y': 19, 'W': 5, 'Q': 12}

Number of protein sequence homologs:

Protein Family: 9.A.14.1.2 the g-protein-coupled receptor (gpcr) family