The Forefront to Evolution
Companies
BioCurious
BioCurious was opened in the year of 2010, in Sunnyvale, California. BioCurious the first biohackerspace in the world, and serves as one of the most well known biohackerspaces among scientists nation wide. BioCurious is a community of scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs that believe innovations in biology should be open and accessible to everyone. What BioCurious contributes to the field of biohacking is a safe and open environment for individuals to experiment and biohack, with a complete laboratory and library for cheap access to equipment, materials, and co-working space.
DIY Bio
Founded in 2008, DIY Bio is an organization of scientists, biotechnologists, and biohackers that seek to establish a vibrant, productive, and safe community of DIY biologists. DIY Bio offers a current events blog on nearly everything concerning biohacking and biotechnology. Additionally, DIY Bio helps to organize numerous local groups and meetups to discuss, share, and develop biohacking techniques, methods, and experiments. What DIY Bio contributes to the field of biohacking is that they help to spread the idea to new areas and develop the knowledge of biohacking.
Grindhouse Wetware
Grindhouse Wetware is a company comprised of highly driven individuals who strive to towards a common goal of augmenting humanity with safe, affordable, and open source technology. Grindhouse Wetware is open to all individuals passionate about augmenting themselves to improve everyday performance and increase utility. Grindhouse Wetware contributes an assortment of implantable devices to the field of biohacking, which have a variety of functions, from increasing neuron activity in the brain to displaying constantly updating medical information onto a phone at the push of a button.
People
Tim Cannon
One of the co-founders of Grindhouse Wetware (mentioned above), Tim Cannon serves as an inspiration to all biohackers out there. Cannon was the first to ever have the Circadia augmentation from Grindhouse Wetware implanted into his left forearm, later on he had two of the Northstar augmentations implanted into him, one on the back of each hand. These augmentations caused him to be labeled as a cyborg by media outlets such as Business Insider and The Awl. Cannon's contributions to the field of biohacking are indirect, being that he serves as living proof that human augmentation by means of technology implantation was possible.
Dave Asprey
Having been featured in the Men's Health Magazine, Dave Asprey is one of the most well known biohackers in America. Asprey is the founder of Bulletproof, a company that seeks to help everyday individuals perform better, think faster, and live better by combining ancient knowledge and brand new technology. What Asprey contributes to the field is his signature blend of Bulletproof coffee, which minimizes the chances of ingesting mold toxins, which can contribute to chronic health issues, found in regular everyday coffee, along with other nutritional and performance enhancing kits.
Rob Carlson
Being a Principal at Biodesic, a consulting firm in Seattle that provides services to governments around the globe, Rob Carlson is relatively well known among biologists and biohackers globally. Carlson's main interest is aimed at the future role of biology as a human technology. Carlson is a frequent international speaker and advisor to many diverse organizations, such as the Hastings Center, the UN, and the US Government. Carlson's primary contribution to biohacking is his book titled Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life, which was published by Harvard University Press, and receiving the PROSE award for the Best Engineering and Technology Book of 2010.
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming is one of the most well known scientists in the history of biology. He is known best as the inventor of the medicinal drug penicillin, which he had actually discovered from a discarded petri dish. Fleming had received many awards, and held the title of president for the Society of General Microbiology for his breakthrough discovery. Though Fleming himself did not directly contribute to the field of biohacking, he left a message that would inspire many biohackers today, that message is that breakthroughs and miracles could be found anywhere, even in the trash.
Universities
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen serves as one of the most prominent facilities of higher education in the Scandinavian region. The university itself is comprised of four campuses all situated around the city of Copenhagen, with its headquarters situated inside central Copenhagen. What the university contributes to the field of biohacking is an open source lab for biohackers along with a few courses pertaining to biotechnology and biohacking.
