i’m guessing that being on the front page of the san francisco chronicle will lead people here. just to point you in the right direction for all biotech inquiries and interest in equipment: http://www.pearlbiotech.com
to join the diybio community: http://www.diybio.org
http://diybio.org/2009/12/20/do-it-yourself-biology-on-the-rise-sf-chronicle/
What a beautiful trip. I’ve discovered something amazing. The work my parents have devoted their entire lives to suddenly makes sense.
I’ve always respected and striven to do what they do — be passionate and devoted to what you love, every day, sacrificing and struggling through nearly everything else. But I never fully appreciated their actual work, the output of this great passion. However, after a wonderful show by my mom, becki, and visiting local galleries with my dad, jan, I suddenly get it. They’ve been locked away in Hawai’i for 20 years painting and their work is so young and hip! And I’m ready to start to show it off to the world…
The new website of lifetime artists, Theodore Jankowski and Rebecca Buck:
http://www.jankowskiandbuck.com
Mechanical for now. Maybe in a few years we’ll have a better understanding of why fruits grown in certain shapes.
The first few consultations are trickling out (the sequecing data is all online) — here are some great youtube videos
Past and present technologies seem so two faced. Cars and motorcycles represent independence – the ability to go wherever and whenever you wish. On the other hand, their use also requires new dependencies, such as the gasoline by Chevron and roads provided by the Department of Transportation. Is every technology like this?
Our first world technologies seem to simply move dependence from self to society — rather than create independence. Overall, are we better off? Are we safer or happier?
Will biology technology be different? How can we start to make it different?
Watching: The Great Barrier Reef (Hulu)
so i’ve mentioned this before, but constructing nanoscale stuff using DNA as your material is now super duper easy. since a A binds with T, and C binds with G, it’s like string that you can force into any shape you want.
and i do mean “you” — i know very few specifics, but i was able to build a simple DNA 3D structure using the web application in less than 15 minutes.
the only suspicious thing about the publication is they show a single structure. i’ll have to read it through again, but the general idea is you get billions of these structures in a droplet, and a lot of them may be messed up (rothemund was proud of his smileys, even the screwed up ones)
The second day (wednedsay) of the FBI conference was even better. We broke up into 5 small groups of about 10 people. My group had FBI, academics, policy, diybio, and public health people.
We walked through 2 scenarios, each discussing where our communities would get involved, or what processes would be involved at a certain point. For instance, “20 people are hospitalized for flu like symptoms, and don’t seem to respond to antibiotics”. How is the public health community involved at this point? what about law enforcement?
Opened a lot of doors, and helped me to see just how we think, and how different our approaches are; hundreds of different elements, chain reactions, escalations, deconstructions, and all built in. The world is an impressive creature.
Got a few FBI/HHS, etc contacts for the DIYbio community. Hopefully we can bust open some communication that has been sorely lacking regarding what’s ok to do in your own home. It’s definitely in between “nothing” (commonly believed) and “everything”.
This post is intended as a journal to document simple things like “where i was” and “when”, nothing more.
Saw some really cool T-38s today while i was driving home from work. took the next exit, tracked them to an airport, and got to see them up close!
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