best greet s.si

I am very interested in what DIYBio is aiming at.

Still, to be honest, I do not find information easy to find on this website or on the forum. For instance : how to begin simply with Bio experiments like dna extraction (detailed process) and next steps.

Does this information exist ? If yes, could you please tell me where to find it ? If not, is it a project you have and when will it be available ?

Thank you,

Vincent

I came across a cople of web sites once, whilst trawling the internet and was wondering if anyone is doing any research on other biological applications for the work discovered in these sites (Sites below)

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE53M5OG20090423

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=have-scientists-discovered-spiderma-2009-04-24

In one of the sites it talks about using zinc to make spider silk stronger and more resistant to environmental impacts.

Has anyone thought of maybe altering a bacterium or virus so that it can alter the proteins of say rat skin, so that it is strentghened with say zinc?

If nature has the ability to do that with certain organisms, surelywe can change a virus to replicate the process for other organisims,to make them more resistant. Maybe have the virus alter the spider so that it makes the silk with embedded zinc or titanium.

I am not a biologist and have no idea what is possible, this is just a thought I had after looking at those sites and I just happened to find your site, so thopught I would post a comment.