The system is f*cked. TradBio reached a dead end — it takes billions to make tech that doesn't work. This extractive system makes money for those at the top while exploiting the 99%. We want to build a new world.
Our mission — enable access to experimental science for all.
The movement, mapped as one continuous process — twelve stages from play and learning through building and financing to clinic, testing, regulation, and speculation about what comes next. Every stop is a project you can walk into.
A biotech art collective — staging the experiments culture is too polite to run, then inviting you to the after-party.
Visit → 02 · LearnAn education platform to train the next biotechnologists with project-based curriculum.
Visit → 03 · EquipOpen-source, modular lab in a box, built to deploy anywhere. Blueprints and protocols are fully open, so any community can stand up a lab from local materials.
Visit → 04 · PrototypeA sprint of rebellious science at the crossroads of synthetic biology, DeSci, and open science. Prototype frontier biotech — DIY diagnostics, living art, lab automation — in days.
Visit → 05 · GrantsFast microgrants — up to $3,000 — for early-stage biology experiments in community labs. No institution or credentials required. Grantees share their work in the open.
Visit → 06 · IncubateThe world's largest open-access biolab. Shared BSL-2 wet-lab infrastructure, tools, and training to incubate your project — real experiments from day one, no million-dollar setup.
Visit → 07 · AccelerateA live-in residency that accelerates founders — 10 scientists per cohort living and building side by side for a 3-month sprint, with mentors and knowledge leaders on tap.
Visit → 08 · FinanceThe funders for the earliest stage of biotech, collected in one place. Founder-friendly with aggressive follow-on, well-sourced and vetted by the community to finance the best companies as they incorporate, hire and grow.
Visit → 09 · ClinicMedical tourism for the frontier — a directory linking patients to clinics all over the world to reach treatments where they're available.
Visit → 10 · TestAnalytical chemistry with harm reduction as its central sacrament — HPLC-anchored testing and full certificates of analysis for peptides, supplements, and research groups.
Visit → 11 · RegulateThe nonprofit defending biological civil liberties — your right to study, test, and change your own biology.
Visit → 12 · SpeculatePredict and speculate about the future — where the community imagines what comes next for biology and stress-tests the wilder possibilities long before they arrive.
Visit →We all share DNA. It's the source code of life, and the fact that the majority of the world remains illiterate in this hidden language is a problem.
This community exists to play at the edges of the possible with life. It is only through play that we are able to learn. It is only through building that we are able to grow.
There are no third spaces available for play in biotechnology. The current systems gatekeep understanding and interaction with our bodies and our planet.
We are not hackers. We don't exploit a system for personal benefit. We're punks. We work together to rebel against convention for mutual aid.
Punk isn't dead. Support your local scene. Join the revolution.
// Full manifesto — coming soon
Biopunk is one node in a much bigger movement. The Global Biolab Atlas is a living map of DIYbio, community biotech, and open-science labs worldwide — with activity status for each. Looking for a bench, a community, or collaborators? Start there.
Open the Global Biolab Atlas →Follow the path — every step is a door.