Put Your Money Where Your Bio Hackerspace Is: Video
Posted by Alex_Pasternack on Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010
Thanks to technological developments and a fascination with zombies (maybe?), DIY biology is all the rage these days. Also helping: researchers’ determination to get things done outside of the typical cyclical funding sources and academic bureaucracies. Enter the bio-hacker, and hackerspaces like BioCurious, a non-profit community project for open source biotech in Mountain View, California.
But to expand their horizons and their garage, they’re in need of some cash flow. They’ve launched a Kickstarter project, which should help them to foster entrepreneurship, as well as to bring the community into the biotech fold (insert protein folding joke here). They write,
Science was once a cultural activity, carried out by wealthy “gentlemen scholars” who had the leisure and material resources to experiment. The 20th century saw an unprecedented centralization of science around an industrial model. The plummeting costs of enabling technologies has brought meaningful biological research back within reach of the independent citizen scientist. From Bio-Art to BioFuels, the wave of next generation biotech applications is set to transform our culture and economy. BioCurious will be Ground 0 for this revolution.
Awesome. Contribute to their Kickstarter, read our Kickstarter interview, watch our documentary on the hardware hackerspace NYC Resistor, and see BioCurious and Make magazine’s issue 07 for some homemade biology instructions.
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