Hacking microscopes – DIYBio meetup 13dec09
We had another gathering at The Sprouts. Mac, Jason, Jason, Dave, Kay, and I (with my son) gathered and talked about moving forward with safety stuff (pages, FA...
Category: Science
Book review: The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
I had the good fortune of being sent a book by No Starch Press called "The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology." The book is a great introductory molecul...
The need for Plain English DIYbio Safety Guidelines
When we were setting up the wetspace over at The Sprouts, there was a lot of discussion about safety. We were all interested in safety, but Mac was clearly stre...
Increasing tinkerability – explaining DIYbio
I was with my father this Thanksgiving and he asked me about "that Biology thing" I've been getting involved in. He's known for some time th...
Video: DIYBio meetup 22nov09
We had a DIYbio Cambridge Boston Sommerville meetup this past weekend to get familiar with a nice new hackspace, The Sprouts, to come up with a project for the ...
Mac, Sophia, and the philosophy of 21st-century Biology
Mac has written two short but deep posts, inspired by a talk by Sophia Roosth. What inspired Mac was Sophia's "anthropological insight" that DIYb...
“The Machinery of Life” – a great book for molecularly-minded folks
I've been meaning to share this for the longest time. I've had this book for ages and never tire of it. "The Machinery of Life," by David Go...
Building a Minimal Airplane?
At the iGEM Jamboree there was a lot of discussion of Minimal Cells, cells that have the fewest number of components to function as a laboratory organism. One o...
DIYbio and Main Stream Scientists – 2004 all over again?
Back in 2004 I was flying all over the place, promoting blogging. It was the year The Blogger entered the public eye, came out in magazines, built empires. One ...
DIYbio at iGEM 2009
iGEM for me was the first time I got to meet folks in the DIYbio "movement." The DIYbio folks from NYC and Boston had a meeting the first night to dis...