{"id":13266,"date":"2026-07-25T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:10:57","slug":"biohacking-odin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/biohacking\/biohacking-odin\/","title":{"rendered":"Biohacking Odin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"biohacking odin\" style=\"max-width:43%; height:auto; max-height:393px; margin:0px 10px; width:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2s6EPf6.jpeg\" align=\"left\" title=\"\"> <\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Licina stood before an audience at Biohack the Planet conference and delivered an impassioned presentation about an initiative undertaken with two friends &#8211; to reverse engineer gene therapy drug Glybera in order to make it available free.<\/p>\n<p>Josiah Zayner is an eccentric biohacker with a Ph.D. who maintains an engaging public persona while often clashing with regulatory bodies. His company, Odin, sells mail-order kits that allow individuals to experiment with CRISPR and glow-in-the-dark yeast technology.<\/p>\n<h2>CRISPR Kits<\/h2>\n<p>Josiah Zayner is a biophysicist who has developed mail-order CRISPR kits that enable anyone to genetically engineer their cells at home using CRISPR. While some worry this form of experimentation could have dire and life-altering repercussions, Zayner sees it as an opportunity to accelerate research, experimentation and development of this groundbreaking technology that could cure diseases such as cancer, blindness and Tay-Sachs as well as regenerate hearts limbs or organs for those in need &#8211; worrying that scientific communities tend to avoid taking risks with developing game-changing technologies he believes the scientific community is too coddled and risk averse in regards to creating revolutionary technologies like this game-changer technology.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Freethink and has been reproduced here with their permission.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe frameBorder=0 allowfullscreen=true height=235 width=421 src=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4vmHweDC5SY style='margin:0px auto; display: block;'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Licina stood before an audience at Biohack the Planet conference and delivered an impassioned presentation about an initiative undertaken with two friends &#8211; to reverse engineer gene therapy drug Glybera in order to make it available free. Josiah Zayner is an eccentric biohacker with a Ph.D. who maintains an engaging public persona while often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biohacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13267,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions\/13267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}