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Posted by kenwei in DIYscience, Experiments, Groups, Los Angeles DIYbio, hardware on 03 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment

DIY Bio Los Angeles – Workshop, Fe... DIYBio brand petri dishes! We had our first DIYBio workshop in Broad Hall on the UCLA Campus over the weekend. The student community from both north and south campus were involved, which included art and science/math majors. Romie Littrell started things off with a short presentation on the concept...

Posted by tito in DIYscience on 02 12th, 2010 | No Comments

DNA Discovery in Middle School... Hi all, Thought I would share a DonorsChoose.org biology project that I donated to back in December — Our Ancestors’ DNA Roots “I teach middle school math science and history for beginning ESL students. My students originate from all parts of the globe including Sudan, Peru, Mexico,...

Posted by JonathanCline in DIYscience on 12 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Support the Public Library of Science (P... Many of us in the DIY realm rely on the open publications of the Public Library of Science at plos.org. You may feel surprised to know that PLoS has web icons which you can display on your own web page! Check it out, make your science blog or web notebooks “PLoS inside” to raise awareness...

Posted by tito in DIYscience on 12 31st, 2009 | 3 Comments

DNA explorers at NYC high school... Great work by 2 DNA explorers — it seems high school students are kicking ass all over the place, first in sushi, now this! Check out this big DNA species identification project, about 200 samples from around the neighborhood and lots of cool findings. Even one that suggests they found a new species...

Posted by mac in DIYscience, talks on 12 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Bryan Bishop presents at and reports fro... Here I go. Start off with something like “Bryan got to speak at H+ Summit 2009 and spotted some neat numbers.” Maybe this will end up in GBM or H+ magazine as a small blurb? Bryan Bishop presented at the 2009 H+ Summit onopen source hardware and took copious notes. Here he presents some...

Posted by mac in DIYscience, San Francisco DIYbio, diybio, press on 12 9th, 2009 | 4 Comments

h+ magazine: diybio movement takes on ag... hplusmag - winter 2009 - cover "Hi there, Ray" Parijata Mackey wrote an article for the Winter 2009 h+ magazine about diybio titled “diybio: a growing movement takes on aging.” She provides an overview of diy -hardware, -software, and -wetware, and gives shoutouts to some of the...

Posted by mac in DIYscience, diybio, policy on 11 17th, 2009 | No Comments

The Bigger Picture: Domesticating Biotec... Scientific American Oct 1953 - Evolution in Bacteria DIYbio aims to be “the institution for the amateur,” developing and providing access to all of the resources a professional might have and an amateur might want, such as equipment, protocols, access to literature, etc. And we are collectively...

Posted by mac in DIYscience, policy on 11 11th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Crafting the Biological... Sophia Roosth, a doctoral student at MIT, presented a talk at The Kennedy School of Government STS seminar series on 9 Nov 2009 called “Crafting the Biological: Open-Sourcing Life Science, from Synthetic Biology to Garage Biotech.“ It’s a fantastic talk. Sophia has been engaged...

Posted by tito in DIYscience, iGEM on 11 8th, 2009 | 6 Comments

An iPhone Microscope... Imagine this: You’re exploring the salt ponds of San Francisco, and notice the water isn’t clear — it’s red! You dip a piece of plastic into the water to get a sample and notice lots of small little particles in the droplets. Then you pull out your iPhone, magnify the sample...

Posted by jasonm in Boston DIYbio, DIYscience on 04 21st, 2009 | No Comments

DIYbio Boston at Cambridge Science Festi... Doing the infamous dna extraction If you’re in the Boston area, drop by the Cambridge Science Festival between noon and 4:00pm this Saturday, April 25, to visit the DIYbio table! We’ll be in the tent at the opening Science Carnival – see the Cambridge Science Festival’s schedule...

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