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Posted by mac in San Francisco DIYbio, press, safety on 12 20th, 2009 | 5 Comments
Do-it-yourself biology on the rise ̵... Do-it-yourself biology on the rise - 20 Dec 2009 - SF Chronicle (pdf) SF Chronicle reporter Juliane Guthrie interviews Tito Jankowski, Phil Ross, Jason Bobe, and Raymond McCauley about the DIYbio projects they are working on. They also interviewed Drew Endy about safety and regulatory concerns.  The...
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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...
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Posted by mac in Boston DIYbio, Groups, San Francisco DIYbio, iGEM, meetings on 11 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment
iGEM 09 Jamboree DIYbio meetup recap... A bunch of interesting projects ideas were discussed at the DIYbio meetup during the iGEM Jamboree 2 weeks ago – here are my notes: Yashas Shetty wants to organize an international DIY microscope building session and subsequent videoconference for early December based on his DIY Microscope...
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Posted by tito in San Francisco DIYbio on 05 28th, 2009 | 2 Comments
DIYbio at Maker Faire this weekend in Sa... Want to see a gel box in action or extract DNA from your saliva? Come by the DIYbio booth at Maker Faire this weekend. DIYbio SF is in the main Expo Hall on Saturday and Sunday, ready to spark your imagination! I’ll also be giving a talk on  gasoline made from sugar cane, houses grown from trees,...
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Posted by tito in San Francisco DIYbio on 05 3rd, 2009 | 9 Comments
DIYbio Salon at Noisebridge... We held the first DIYbio Salon this past Saturday at Noisebridge in San Francisco. Glofish fluoresce -- green, red, and orange! Among other topics, we chatted a lot about Glofish — the genetically modified zebrafish that fluoresce under blue light. Some of us are aquarium-lovers and others are...
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Posted by tito in San Francisco DIYbio on 04 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment
DIYbio San Francisco – Glow in the... Step 1. Planning our experiment The pressure cooker shot out steam, like an enormous teapot. At over 200˚F, steam had just sterilized our liquid agar, the favorite food of growing cells. We’re on our way to make glowing cells with the Carolina Sciences “Green Gene Colony Transformation...
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