Josiah Zayner and Chicks on Speed talk biohacking and Do-It-Yourself DNA

Jo Zayner is a biohacker, artist, and scientist best known for their self-experimentation and work making hands-on genetic engineering accessible to a lay audience, including CRISPR. josiahzayner.com/   Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, when members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. http://www.chicksonspeed.com/  Podsongs is a podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song. www.podsongs.com  CRISPR   Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats CRISPR CRISPR CRISPR CRISPR CRIS, CRIS, CRIS, PR Where’s the bass? Doing the science Cut and add, you’ve got the sequence Making it happen Do you want to jam, with my genes? Give me some of your genetic engineering Your kitchen garage time machine Take me to see a dragon Everybody has a device to push the button Bottom up, top down Lifloning logistics Baby genes in editing Change our genes, make a choice Self-injected, what’s the real Believe in who, what’s the wrong in the world Science isn’t done a lab coat Seeing through your twisted CRISPR Science isn’t done a lab coat Empty hallways what’s going on Artificial balance hey Hey love I could lose Body autonomy Me and you just we two point of view What’s the truth? Make me faith Make me real Change modify Men on estrogen Therapy it’s popular Vocabulary Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Clustered Interspaced Palindromic Repeats CRISPR CRISPR CRISPR CRISPR I was not born this way Didn’t like my DNA You said my genes were lame Were so uncool and my parents were to blame If only, science made me cooler Maybe some talent and a photogenic bone structure Dear science, save me from this gene pool It’s mediocre why does nature have to be so cruel? What do you think about mosquitos? What about repair kit? What about the DNA? What about the therapy? What is natural? Have the repair kit rather than the scalpel? What about fixing the murals? What about repair kit subsitutes for jail cells? I’m starving mosquito flying around Can’t locate dinner Receptors are down My target of desired of plasma can’t be found A starving mosquito Buzzing around Buzzing around Buzzing around Buzzing around // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.comPodcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodesSongs: https://podsongs.com/musicSpotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7IgSpotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongsInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsongsFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs