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$30 to Make a DIY EpiPen

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602422/it-costs-30-to-make-a-diy-epipen-and-heres-the-proof/ The pharmaceutical company Mylan, which is the only manufacturer of the device, was recently shown to have raised the prices of a single device from $57 to $318—that’s a 461 percent increase—since acquiring rights to it in 2007. […] There are several reasons why nobody else has built an alternative to the EpiPen, among them patent protection, fear …

I won the SBOL logo contest

with…. Introduction to SBOL    

GenoTHREAT/GenoGUARD goes open source

GenoTHREAT is now open source (find it on Source Forge). The press release: BLACKSBURG, Va., March 21, 2011 – A software package designed to minimize the potential risks of synthetic biology for the nation’s defense and security is now available to the gene synthesis industry and synthetic biology community in an open-source format. Virginia Tech …