Welcome to BioTech. Narrated Flash Animations: Plasmid Cloning, Polymerase Chain Reaction, and More! Using Subclipse on OS/X with Homebrew. If you install Eclipse on OS/X and then install the Subclipse plug-in, you might be surprised to see an error about missing JavaHL bindings for Subversion.
Subclipse uses the official Java to C bindings provided by the Subversion team. On OS/X these aren’t installed by default. If you use Homebrew to install open source software on OS/X (and I highly recommend it), then just installing Subversion won’t give them to you either. So, to install Subversion using Homebrew and get the JavaHL bindings necessary for Subclipse, use this line: brew install --universal --java subversion This will create the 32 and 64 bit versions (—universal) and the JavaHL bindings (—java). Let's Make Robots! Drug Discovery and Biotechnology Trends – Biochips 1: Microarrays on ... Drug Discovery and Biotechnology Trends - Biochips 1: Microarrays on the Move The companies in this article were selected at random.
Their inclusion in this article does not indicate endorsement by either AAAS or Science, nor is it meant to imply that their products or services are superior to those of other companies. This is the first of four supplements this year on biochips. The next will appear in the 14 May issue of Science. Developed more than a decade ago, DNA microarrays took a long time to take root in life science laboratories. The microarrays, which permit scientists to examine thousands of strands of DNA simultaneously, showed initial promise in basic research. Not surprisingly, life scientists have started to apply the technology to drug discovery.
The technology has value in several parts of the drug pipeline. As Synthetic Biology Becomes Affordable, Amateur Labs Thrive. In a third-floor loft where programmers build Internet start-ups, Mackenzie Cowell is talking about the tools he and like-minded young colleagues are using to fuel what they hope will be the next big thing in biology.
The list includes a cut-up Charlie Card, ingredients bought on eBay to make a kind of scientific Jell-O, and a refrigerator, just scored on Craigslist.com, that chills to 80 degrees below zero. Cowell is part of an effort called DIYbio — short for do-it-yourself biology — that aims to move science into the hands of hobbyists.
It is starting by holding sessions where amateurs extract DNA, and attempt genetic fingerprinting using common household items and the kitchen sink. BioCurious: A Hackerspace for Biotech. The Community Lab for Citizen ... BioCurious?
Experiment with friends. What is bioDIY? " Pimm – Partial immortalization. Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home. Ponoko – the world's easiest making system. Homebrew Molecular Biology Club. Andy Grove, the co-founder and long-time CEO of Intel, threw down on modern biology.
In a speech at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, he challenges big pharma companies, many of which haven’t had an important new compound approved in ages, and academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways. Ouch. Grove, as he continued his thoughts in the interview with Newsweek. The peer review system in grant making and in academic advancement has the major disadvantage of creating conformity of thoughts and values.
The conditions of a mass biotech DIY movement " Pimm – Partial ... The idea of doing biological experiments with current biotechnological methods and conducting research projects at home is quite new.
There are already many names in use referring to the same concept: bioDIY, home biology, biotech DIY, garage biology. We have a detailed case example which can be considered as the first registered, high profile biotech DIY activity starting the era of useful garage biology: Recently Hugh Rienhoff amplified his daughter’s DNA at home to help doctors figure out her genetic disorder. From the Nature cover article:
Tech Know: Life hacking with 3D printing and DIY DNA kits. LJ Rich meets the people who use a 3D printing machine to build ornaments and jewellery at Newcastle's Maker Faire.
Hacking and making is no longer just about hardware and software, increasingly it is about wetware - that's biology to the uninitiated. Those starting to hack biology want to do for it what the web and easy to use tools such as the Arduino programmable controller have done for hardware hacking. That is make it easy to understand and fun to play around with. "You can get kids interested in electricity and physics because there are lots of kits that they can play with, but that's not true for biology," said Cathal Garvey, one of a growing breed of makers calling themselves synthetic biologists. Nstruindo foguetes - BBC News - Tech Know: The sky is not the limit. 14 July 2010Last updated at 08:04 Ellie Gibson meets the inventors who fire 20-foot tall rockets into the skies above Cambridgeshire In our regular series about makers and hackers, BBC News meets the rocket men.
DYI Garage Biotech. One day, we knew, biotech would become so easy and so cheap that two guys in a garage could hack life in the way kids hack code.
