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| DIY Biologists To Open Source Research |
| from the meatware-hacking dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 20, @13:33 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/20/163200 |
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[0]destinyland writes "Falling costs and garage tinkering are creating a
grass roots movement of amateur biologists [1]whose research is more
transparent than that of academia. They are building lab equipment using
common household items and even synthesizing new organisms, and their
transparency also allows the social pressure which creates more ethical
research. [2]DIY Bio.org fosters lab co-ops for large equipment and
provokes important discussions. (Would it be ethical to release a
homegrown symbiote that cures scurvy in hundreds of thousands of people?)
This movement could someday lead to bottom-up remedies for disease,
fuel-generating microbes, or even a social-networked disease-tracking
epidemiology. 'In much the same way that homebrew computer science built
the world we live in today, garage biology can affect the future we make
for ourselves,' argues h+ magazine, which featured the article [3]in
their summer issue."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/20/163200
Links:
0. http://www.destinyland.org/
1. http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/bio/darning-genes-biology-homebody
2. http://diybio.org/
3. http://hplusmagazine.com/digitaledition/2009-summer/
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