Re: [DIYbio] Re: query from PBS NewsHour

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Jason Bobe <jasonbobe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'm concentrating on equipment for now, but I foresee within 2-5 years
having a proper system to whip out synBio organisms pretty fast...

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Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics

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