Published 5 May 2020 by Cherise Fong

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.

Published 10 February 2019

The survey will be used to identify specifically which kinds of tools scientists would use if they could build them DIY-style at low cost. Then, of course, the goal is to build them.

Published 20 March 2018 by Cherise Fong

Since 2012, Counter Culture Labs, the grassroots biohacklab in the East Bay of San Francisco, has been promoting open citizen science. A couple years ago, it also began cultivating mushroooms…

Published 10 October 2017 by Ewen Chardronnet

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.

Published 26 September 2017 by la rédaction

Lambert Heller deals with topics such as Open Science and Open Access. In this contribution, he presents ten global trends affecting informal science learning.

Published 18 July 2017

On July 13, in Amsterdam, 10 scientist makers set off on their European tour on board the Do-it-Together Science Bus, in association with the Waag Society fablab.

Published 27 June 2017 by Annick Rivoire

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.

Published 1 December 2016 by Elsa Ferreira

On November 26 and 27, the artist Tomás Saraceno brought together researchers from the most prestigious universities in the world for a hackathon unlike any other. Objective: invent the Aerocene era.

Published 2 August 2016 by Annick Rivoire

Interview with Thomas Landrain, president of La Paillasse, a Parisian biohacklab that has disrupted scientific research and initiates projects for open innovation.

Published 7 June 2016

Developers, users and DIYers of the Open Science Hardware network GOSH published a manifesto for an “open science equipment on a global scale”.

Published 31 May 2016 by Ewen Chardronnet

The Epidemium challenge, an open science initiative launched by La Paillasse biohacklab and Roche laboratories, awarded the top projects analyzing big data on cancer.

Published 3 May 2016 by Cherise Fong

In the design mecca of Shibuya in Tokyo, the MTRL coworking space is hosting the first Biohack Academy in Japan. Makery met the budding scientists of this DIY biology program.

Published 29 March 2016 by Ewen Chardronnet

Connected to a tablet or a smartphone, the first open source ultrasound echo-stethoscope was presented on March 24 at Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris.

Published 14 March 2016 by la rédaction

The Cern in Geneva was hosting Gosh!, a gathering of international activists in the field of Open Science Hardware.

Published 4 March 2016 by Ewen Chardronnet

Robot designer Frank Kolkman is presenting his surgery DIY robot at the Art&Science Kapelica gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia.