are developing vegan cheese. Another company started by biohackers, Synbiota, offers do-it-yourself biotech kits that sell in the hundreds of dollars. One kit enables anyone to develop Violacein, a very expensive anti-cancer agent.
The existence of Dangerous Things, offers some evidence that the body biohacking community now boasts a respectably large number of participants, at least enough to keep Dangerous Things in business and enough to keep at least five members of their team employed. Other evidence of the growing biohacker community is not hard to find. UCLA hosted the “Outlaw Biology Summit” in 2010. In the last few years biohacking incubators and community labs have sprouted up around the country. Fertilab Thinkubator just launched this past July in Eugene, Oregon. It is clear that they sense the opportunity, and that they are using the organizational knowledge learned from prior research and development efforts that took place “off-the-institutional reservation.” On their website, they emphasize collaboration as a core value, and they announce, “We know that if one of us succeeds, we all succeed.” So it was for the non-traditional computer hacking subculture of the 1970s, for example, which gave us the personal computer, and the anti-proprietary operating system hackers who gave us Linux in the 1990s. Hacker communities learned to work and share; the