The DIYbio community has been featured in several major news outlets recently. Here is a round-up, with links to featured individuals and community labs:
- Ritchie S. King. “When Scientific Advances Begin at Home” New York Times, January 16, 2012. Featuring:
- Cathal Garvey
- Daniel Grushkin
- Genspace (Brooklyn NY)
- Charlie Schick
- Ellen D. Jorgensen
- Pui-Wing Tam. “‘Biohackers’ Get Their Own Space to Create” Wall Street Journal. January 12, 2012. Featuring:
- BioCurious (Mountain View, CA)
- Raymond McCauley
- George Church
- Ron Shigeta
- Patrik D’haeseleer
- “The rise of co-working. Setting desk jockeys free” The Economist. Dec 31, 2011. Featuring:
- BioCurious (Mountain View, CA)
diybio postcard subscribers - 01 Jan 2012
The community posted some great submissions (see them here) for the first diybio postcard “mini-newsletter”, providing a brief snapshot of activity over the last two months.
Over the next two weeks I’ll finish the layout, printing, and mailing of the cards, so they should hopefully be arriving in your mailbox around the end of January. The cards are going all over the world, to over 100 subscribers spanning six of the seven continents (aren’t there any diybiologists in Antarctica yet?).
Subscribe for free, learn more about the postcard project, or check out the entries for the first postcard.
The Kojo Nnamdi Show invited a few folks from the DIYbio community to have a discussion about the amateur biology movement. Appearing on the show was:
- David Rejeski: Director, Synthetic Biology Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Daniel Grushkin: Vice president and a founder of Genspace; Freelance Science Writer
- Jason Bobe: Co-founder of DIYbio.org; Executive Director of PersonalGenomes.org
More details about the program, or listen to the archived stream.
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