Open Source Hormone Production

This page has the purpose of collecting several approaches to create the hormones necessary, as well as provide information about art projects that try to do so.

Synthesis and extraction approaches
Ways to synthesise or extract estrogen:

Extraction from Horse Urine
Historically the first approach to extract estrogen was the extraction of estrogen from pregnant horse urine. The process is straightforward and is well described in literature:  The conjugated estrogen is also sold under the brand name Premarin (a contraction of "pregnant mares' urine"). Premarin has more side effects compared with other forms of estrogen.

Biotechnological production
Another way to produce estrogen is using tissue cultures:

https://www.jove.com/video/58208/a-tissue-culture-model-estrogen-producing-primary-bovine-granulosa

Current Art Projects concerning Open Source HRT
This is a collection of art projects regarding Open Source estrogen.

Mary Maggic
Mary Maggie wrote her master thesis about an open source estrogen art project and produced videos on the topic Her website: 

Her master thesis: 

Videos:  

Rian Hammond
Rian Hammond is working on Estrogen producing fungi.