Can an inter-communal alliance solve the problem of test shortages? Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) pools skills to explore an experimental yet promising diagnostic technique: LAMP.
JOGL, a global platform for collaborating on open source biotech projects, recently launched a series of micro-grants for projects directly tackling the Covid-19 crisis.
In Tokyo, biohacker Shingo Hisakawa is converting his NinjaPCR open source thermal cycler into a real-time DNA amplifier, which could test for the coronavirus Covid-19.
Oki Wonder Lab just may be the most remote un-disciplinary DIYbio camp going on in the world right now. Hackteria’s latest event is currently taking place in Okinawa.
The second edition of Dinacon concluded in Gamboa, Panama, after four very full weeks of August at the intersection of excursions into nature and experimental art-techno projects.
Following its first three weeks of creative activities and jungle adventures, this year’s Dinacon camp exhibited a cross-section of experimental projects in progress.
Makery participated in Mikrobiomik’s “Open Soil Research” workshop at the parisian Swiss Cultural Center to observe the microscopic biodiversity of soils.
Clash in the DIYbio community around a biotech company that claims to offer DIY vaccine injection kits and other treatments for diseases such as aids or herpes.
For eight days in February, 20 artists and scientists explore together in Tokyo the field of possibilities in DIYbio within the framework of BioCamp: Gardens of ‘Biotechnik’.
Hailing from Israel, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Italy and France, they participated in the Open Source Body festival to defend their vision of open hardware for open science. Portraits.
It’s over! A look back on the Makery festival in Paris, where for the 1st time in France the actors of Open Science Hardware met the public.
On September 21-24, the MIT Media Lab hosted the Bio Summit, the largest assembly of biohackers to date. A milestone in the movement of community biology labs.
They organized in May a seminar on biohacking in healthcare. Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou and Jérôme Avom explain the potential of open science for developing countries.
The media darling and cofounder of La Paillasse biohacklab in Paris has resigned, now replaced by Hacene Lahreche. For French fablabs, this change marks the end of the “sandbox” era.
The incredible story of The Odin’s CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing kit, which travels across the Atlantic and sets off the first legal-sanitary counter-attacks.
Biotinkerers, bio-artists and open science communities are miniaturizing their labs in order to bring DIYbio to the masses. Part 2 of our selection of boxes, kits and cases.
Diary of the biohacker Timothée Gosselin who is taking part in Biology Zero, a bootcamp to discover DIY biology at the Valldaura Green Fablab, from July 27 to August 5.
