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Video Friday: DIYSECT — DIY Biology and Bioart

Peter September 11, 2015 5905 Views 2 Comments

The excellent DIYSECT web-series covers the DIY biohacking scene. Watch the first four parts online today.

DIY Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech Economies

Peter September 3, 2015 17120 Views No Comments

1. INTRODUCTION Most articles on garage biology and do-it-yourself (DIY) biology – whether academic papers or media reports – highlight its somewhat “immaterial” cultures or ideologies. The issues usually raised include: the ways in which do-it-yourself biology potentially democratizes science and fosters a citizen science (Wolinsky, 2009), that its practitioners are a “creative proof of the hacke...

Hacking the body: the scientific counter-culture of the DIYbio movement

Peter September 2, 2015 6501 Views No Comments

Science and biology are slowly, but smoothly, being co-opted by a DIY approach that’s looking an awful lot like the start of the tech start-up boom.

Hear Electromagnetic Fields and “Delicate Sounds” Beyond Human Hearing With These Microphones

Peter August 6, 2015 4154 Views No Comments

These microphones allow recording EM fields instead of conventional sound and "delicate sounds" at the edge of human perception.

SynBioLGDB: a resource for experimentally validated logic gates in synthetic biology

Peter June 2, 2015 5002 Views No Comments

Synthetic biologists have developed DNA/molecular modules that perform genetic logic operations in living cells to track key moments in a cell's life or change the fate of a cell. SynBioLGDB (http://bioinformatics.ac.cn/synbiolgdb/) aims to provide the synthetic biology community with a useful resource for efficient browsing and visualization of genetic logic gates.

Busking in Hyperspace: Creating a mask for self-o-nautics

Peter January 13, 2015 5094 Views No Comments

Onyx Ashanti designs a new mask for self-o-nautics.

Grow Your Own Ginseng for Longevity

Peter January 13, 2015 10193 Views No Comments

Ginseng is the oldest traditional longevity tonic, with a history going back 4,000 years

Growing Robot Minds

Peter January 12, 2015 5124 Views No Comments

Polymorphic entities have the same interfaces. Typically one ends up with a family of types of objects (e.g. classes). At any given time, if you are given an object of a family, you can interface to it the same way.