Archive for June 2010

Make Magazine’s Best of 2009 - Med & Bio Hacks

Medical and Bio: Open source hardware 2009 - The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009.

BodyShock: Call for Entries on Ideas to Transform Lifestyles and the Human Body to Improve Health in the Next Decade

Bryan Bishop just sent over this link to me. Sounds like an interesting competition and could be another focal point for a longer term project after this year’s iGEM competition.

Check it out!!!

DIY - AFM plans

One of the folks at Hack:DC just posted a link to plans for a milled Atomic Force Microscope.

This is an extremely expensive piece of equipment that can give insight into a number of biological processes that go unseen from standard optical microscopes.

http://www.biophysik.physik.uni-muenchen.de/projects/plastic-afm

Obama and DOE meet for SynBio Review

 The White House and DOE have session to review Synthetic Biology post JCVI’s announcement.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/congress-obama-synthetic-bio/

National Academies Keck Foundation Podcasts Highlight SynBio Conference

Here’s a series of pre-conference podcasts with a number of specialists in the field of synthetic biology.

Speakers include J. Craig Venter, Drew Endy, Jay Kiesling, Ron Weiss and more. Definitely worthwhile background discussions.

TEDtalksDirector w JCV

More press on the synthetic genomes…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZ-GjSaqgo

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