Mac and I did a PBS Newshour interview back in 2008:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec08/diybio_12-30.html
It was an odd interview that went something like this:
Interviewer: What is DIYbio?
Mac and Jason: We are people who want to roll-up our sleeves and do biology as a hobby, etc...
Interviewer: How is it regulated?
...Then 45 minute Q&A on safety.
The interview was over and I was like, "hey, you never asked us what we are working on?" At the time, Mac was running sessions building DIY set-ups for DNA extraction from strawberries and running gels w/ 9V batteries. I was working on swabbing crosswalk buttons to see what microbes lived there...
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I'm afraid of feeding the hype machine that has been bult up around this, which seems like how this is being positioned.
I'd be curious to hear from the mailing list:
(1) Is anyone actually doing DIY work on synthetic biology? What makes it DIY (e.g. taking place in a community lab)? What makes it synbio (and not just biology or molecular biology)?
(2) So far, I think the community has shown tremendous innovative capacity around low-cost tools/devices like dremelfuge, gogo-fuge, open pcr. It is unclear to me whether the community (or which parts of it) will be a fountain of innovation in synbio anytime soon.
Thanks,
Jason
On Friday, March 30, 2012 2:09:05 PM UTC-7, Bryan Bishop wrote:
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From: Lee Koromvokis <lkoromvokis@newshour.org>Date: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Subject: [diybio-boston] query from PBS NewsHour
To: "diybio-boston@googlegroups.com " <diybio-boston@googlegroups.com >
--Hello,
I am a producer for the PBS NewsHour. Correspondent Paul Solman and I are looking to interview a group of bio hackers--and also hopefully see some bio hacking!--for a story we are doing about the potential benefits and risks of synthetic biology. (Actually, it is part of a larger story about all the scientific and technological breakthroughs that could happen sooner than most people realize because of Moore's Law and DIY innovators). Anyone interested?
Lee Koromvokis | Producer, PBS NewsHour
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