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Posted by JonathanCline in This Week in DIYbio, hardware on 12 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments

DIY Centrifuge using Dremel Tool... Cathal has designed a simple centrifuge using open source hardware technology, and you can order one yourself! (For use as entertainment purposes only, of course; wouldn’t want anyone to save nearly a thousand dollars by not buying real centrifuge now would we?) Dremelfuge is a rotor designed...

Posted by JonathanCline in This Week in DIYbio on 09 4th, 2009 | No Comments

A Quick Guide to Teaching R Programming ... A great article in the recent PLoS Computational Biology – freely accessible to all! Additionally, check out: OpenWetWare’s topic on “R”. A Quick Guide to Teaching R Programming to Computational Biology Students by Stephen J. Eglen*, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute,...

Posted by tito in This Week in DIYbio on 03 26th, 2009 | No Comments

This week in DIYbio!... Microfluidics, a competition for free sequencing, an abundance of ideas for cheap lab equipment both second-hand and DIY, and thoughtful discussions on the current state of public perception and the future of regulation have made for quite an interesting week in DIYbio. Projects Bryan Bishop and others...

Posted by tito in This Week in DIYbio on 02 17th, 2009 | No Comments

This week in DIYbio... 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...

Posted by mac in This Week in DIYbio on 02 5th, 2009 | No Comments

This week in DIYbio... The Weekly DIYbio link fountain of science for children The DIYbio google group is fast approaching 2000 unique posts. To highlight some of the more interesting conversations and links, we’ll post a weekly summary on Friday. We’re hooking up a drinking fountain to the firehose. So,...

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