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On Biohacking

Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking — you can do it, too TED talk 2012

Glowing Plant: seeds to be shipped ?

The project Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting without Electricity Now order: Glowing Plant seeds $50 A pack of 50-100 fertile seeds of Glowing Plant Arabidopsis. Use the plants as a nightlight or show them off to your friends. The seeds are expected to ship in September 2014 or Maker Kit $300 The maker kit includes the …

BioArt

Let’s start with the basic review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioArt   Browse Eduardo Kac’s thought–provoking projects at http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html With the famous Alba, the fluorescent bunny. http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html And Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist’s own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008. Collection Weisman Art Museum. http://www.ekac.org/nat.hist.enig.html   Making people think about synthetic biology, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg …

Making Chickens Lay Falcon Eggs

If you too dream of a sweater made with woolly mammoth wool….(or not) Read http://biobeans.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-chickens-lay-falcon-eggs-science.html The dawn of De-extinction TED talk by Stewart Brand. Reassembling Extinct Genomes Making Chickens Lay Falcon Eggs

DIY Bioterrorism

DIY Bioterrorism Part I: The Age for Synthetic Biology and the Threat to Global Security January 27, 2014 By Adam Bernier and Patrick Rose DIY Bioterrorism Part I: The Age for Synthetic Biology and the Threat to Global Security Notes: Many countries have been promoting an economic plan that includes the biotechnology industry as a …

Notes 'Network security and data integrity in academia: an assessment and a proposal for large-scale archiving'

From: A. Smith, D. Greenbaum, S. M. Douglas, M. Long, and M. Gerstein, “Network security and data integrity in academia: an assessment and a proposal for large-scale archiving.,” Genome Biol., vol. 6, no. 9, p. 119, Jan. 2005. Concept: vigilance, good policy and planning, and attention to detail in a three-pronged strategy of prevention, detection, and …

Synthetic Biology Explained

I think this is a good video to know about synthetic biology! Great starting point.

Ero.Coli: synbio video game!

Can’t wait to try it……Ero.Coli!!!! I love the name. http://www.dsynbio.com/

Citizen Cyberlab

Worth checking out http://citizencyberlab.eu/

New financial model to fund drug research

TED: Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research “Believe it or not, about 20 years’ worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can’t get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high. Roger Stein is a finance guy, and he …