Articles in category 'Biotechnology'

From the Methuselah Foundation: “Are you an undergraduate interested in the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence and other avenues of longevity science? Have you considered volunteering with the Methuselah Foundation to help advances towards the repair of aging? Then you should visit the MFURI website to learn more about the Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate Research Initiative. […]

By Ben, 7/15/2008, 3:42 pm o'clock

Jason Bobe from DIY Bio passed this along to the list and I feel obliged to share it with you all. Andrew Balmer and Paul Martin of the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham, England wrote this fantastic paper on the societal implications of DIY biology; on our laws and […]

By Ben, 6/29/2008, 11:14 am o'clock

World-Renowned Scientists and Policy-Makers Discuss Curing Age-Related Diseases
The Methuselah Foundation presents Aging 2008: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications, a panel discussion featuring world-renowned scientists and advocates of stem cell and regenerative medicine research, including Dr. Aubrey de Grey, the Foundation’s Chairman and Chief Science Officer. Panelists will discuss the scientific progress and implications of […]

By Ben, 6/23/2008, 8:28 pm o'clock

Author’s introductory note. There are a number of DIY (do-it-yourself) free and open source (or shareable and public) projects accessible through the internet including the biotech toolkit, OpenWetWare, diybio, biopunk, biogang, and so on. Because of modern software architecture and technologies, there’s the availability to use revision history systems such as git to proliferate collaborative […]

By Ben, 6/21/2008, 11:44 am o'clock

Detailed tutorial on how to easily extract DNA from any organism.
I know at the end that YouTube’s quality is probably not good enough for the DNA stands to be seen falling off, but that’s ok, because when you do it you will be able to see
By the way, I highly recommend you don’t […]

By Ben, 6/16/2008, 7:45 pm o'clock

DIY Bio Meeting #2 is tonight from 7-9PM.
Per Mac:

Hi DIYBioers,
Here’s the rough agenda for the upcoming Meetup this week (Note location change!):
DIYbio Cambridge MeetUp #2 @ BetaHouse
7:00pm - 9:00pm Thursday 12 June 2008
13 Magazine st, apt. 2, Cambridge, MA 02139
BetaHouse is a co-working space that I work at and that has graciously agreed to host […]

By Ben, 6/12/2008, 11:55 am o'clock

The DIY Bio movement is growing. Click over the MAKE and check out the open source synth bio kit they’ve put together.
Good stuff. Next DIY Bio meeting is next month! I need to get these HHMI vids digitized. If there’s anyone in the Boston area that can do this, holler: benATtheflowingofthedaoDOTcom
Thanks […]

By Ben, 6/1/2008, 10:56 pm o'clock

By Ben, 5/17/2008, 12:48 pm o'clock