Biohacking, biohacker, or biohack may refer to:
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Biohackers'', 2020 German techno-thriller streaming television series
Science and medicine
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Body hacking
Body hacking is the application of the hacker ethic (often in combination with a high risk tolerance) in pursuit of enhancement or change to the body's functions through technological means, such as do-it-yourself cybernetic devices or by intr ...
, the application of the hacker ethic to improve one's own body
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CRISPR gene editing
CRISPR gene editing (; pronounced like "crisper"; an abbreviation for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats") is a genetic engineering technique in molecular biology by which the genomes of living organisms may be modified. ...
, genetic engineering technique in molecular biology by which the genomes of living organisms may be modified
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Do-it-yourself biology
Do-it-yourself biology (DIY biology, DIY bio) is a biotechnology, biotechnological social movement in which individuals, communities, and small organizations study biology and List of life sciences, life science using the same methods as traditi ...
, movement in which individuals and small organizations study biology
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Gene knockout
Gene knockouts (also known as gene deletion or gene inactivation) are a widely used genetic engineering technique that involves the gene targeting, targeted removal or inactivation of a specific gene within an organism's genome. This can be done t ...
, genetic engineering technique that involves the targeted removal or inactivation of a specific gene within an organism's genome
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Quantified self
Quantified self is both the cultural phenomenon of self-tracking with technology and a community of users and makers of self-tracking tools who share an interest in "self-knowledge through numbers". Quantified self practices overlap with the pract ...
, measuring various biomarkers and behaviors to try to optimize health
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Performance psychology, improving ones mental and behavioural capabilities to boost performance
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Synthetic biology
Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary field of science that focuses on living systems and organisms. It applies engineering principles to develop new biological parts, devices, and systems or to redesign existing systems found in nat ...
, field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities
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Nootropic
Nootropics ( or ) (colloquially brain supplements, smart drugs, cognitive enhancers, memory enhancers, or brain boosters) are chemical substances which purportedly improve cognitive functions, such as attention, memory, wakefulness, and self ...
, drugs, supplements, and other substances to improve cognitive function in healthy individuals
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Nutrigenomics
Nutritional genomics, also known as nutrigenomics, is a science studying the relationship between human genome, human nutrition and health. People in the field work toward developing an understanding of how the whole body responds to a food via sy ...
, study of the relationship between human genome, nutrition and health
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Self-experimentation in medicine, scientific experimentation in which the experimenter performs the experiment on themselves
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