The Current State And Future Of Biohacking

For years at The Medical Futurist, we’ve covered countless digital health devices and technologies, and how they can empower patients in the digital health age. These share the common feature of augmenting the patient experience, and such augmentations can be taken to the next level via biohacking.  In this article, we’ll introduce the biohacking concept, illustrate it with examples of biohackers (you might be one already!) and contemplate its impact on the future of digital health. What is biohacking? As the term itself suggests, “biohacking” generally refers to the act of hacking or modifying biological systems outside of traditional academic or laboratory settings, and one who practises such an act is called a “biohacker”. It has also been used interchangeably with terms such as “citizen biology” and “do-it-your-self biology” that bring the hacking and tinkering ethic to biology. Biohacking has led to a whole movement, which gained popularity over the past decade. Some adherents to this movement even liken it to an alternate or even revolutionary version of science that is not constrained by traditional gatekeeping measures.  Biohacking can apply to human biology with the aim to improve one’s well-being as well as non-human biology such as manipulating plant genes to alternate their growth. For the purpose of this article, we’ll focus on human biohacking. Levels of biohacking Based on its definition alone, there’s...
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