There’s a pretty nice blurb on the DIYbio movement in today’s USA Today. It covers the basics and highlights a few of the controversies but doesn’t describe many practical applications. It touches on DNA sequencing and open access to lab equipment and basic molecular biology tools (expression vectors and strains, common reagents, etc) and hints at one cool application (the blue yogurt). Nice plug for BioCurious (a hackerspace in the Bay area) and the OpenPCR machine. They even talk about the risk of making “unstoppable Franken-microbes”. Not that we would ever do such a thing in the Dark Lab, but I do know of three fictional teen biopunks who had a basement experiment go horribly wrong…
You can read the USA Today article here but you’ll have to wait awhile to read what happened to the teens.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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