This week: Gel electrophoresis in a straw
Hi everyone — Thoughts and discussions took a backseat to projects and results. This week we had everything from starting DIY iGEM Teams to sharing results of straw electrophoresis. Check it out!
Projects:
- iGEM Team – Mac Cowell invited everyone to start a DIY iGEM team in 2009. (thread)
- Gel electrophoresis – Tito Jankowski ran gel electrophoresis in a straw. The instructions are on OpenWetWare. (thread)
- DIY PCR – Bryan Bishop wants a cheap PCR machine. (thread)
- DIY Spectrophotometer – “Let’s not concentrate on making duplicates of old technology; let’s make something better.” – Tom Knight (thread)
- The Toothbrush Genome Project – Andrew Hessel invites us to know more about the bacteria in our mouths (thread)
- DIYbio Educational Outreach – Julie Norville starts the DIYoutreach group (thread)
Links and Discussion:
- Defining and shaping DIYbio culture (Security, Safety, and Responsibility) is discussed by Roger Brent and others (thread)
- Do-it-yourself PCR by Scientific American is brought to attention by Reshma Shetty (thread)
- Can ‘open peer review’ work for biologists? Jason Morrison and others discuss an article from Nature (thread)
- Flu biology: Lora wonders if we can sequence different strains of flu (thread)