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DIYBio: Friendly BioHacking?

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Channel: dHewlett · 2014 · People & Blogs

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Here's the follow-up to Monday's Bio-Hacking video that seems to have confused and terrified so many of you. I apologize that my attempt to come up with eye-catching title's stirred things up and thus I don't think that the whole BioHacking angle got off on the right foot.  Let's use the term DIYBio instead.  It's a "friendlier" term that doesn't seem to instill quite as much fear and loathing as BioHacking. I just wanted to share my discovery of this amazing new movement that's providing the tools, knowledge and access that citizen scientists and hobbyists need to start exploring biotechnology in that a way that hadn't been possible before. Qdragon was the guy who really opened my eyes to the subject and I'm very keen to help him get a DIYBio type show up and running on his YouTube channel.  I was hoping to do that by dabbling in the subject myself and doing some kind of regular video on the subject to drive interest to the subject and thus Qdragon's biotech endeavours!  Here's a lengthy list of links!


Here's Qdragon's channel:

And here's his brief show idea:
The goal of this series is to educate people on biotechnology in general, independent or DIY biotechnology, and to give interested people a foundation of knowledge for getting involved themselves.  As with all modern biotechnology a majority of these tool relate to engineering and utilizing microorganisms such as bacteria, algae, and yeast.

diybio.org
(Mackenzie Cowell and Jason Bobe)
DIYbio is a network of individuals from around the globe that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists

Ellen Jorgensen:
We have personal computing, why not personal biotech?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWEpeW7Ojzs

http://beeotex.wordpress.com/

https://backyardbrains.com/
Spikerbox cockroach leg video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKen7tCDCs#t=81

BioTech educational kits and videos:
http://www.edvotek.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9dQ1p9TmdQ#t=59

Lepht Anonym: Cybernetics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Dv6dDtdcs

London http://biohackspace.org/
Cancer Research UK’s game Play to cure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeEDAchrc1U

JimTheEvo

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