Category Archives: DIY-Bio

This year, the MIT Media Lab organized a global summit on community biotechnology.  It was a great opportunity to meet in person, some of the people from all over the planet that FamiLAB members have been interacting with online for years, and to catch up with some old friends who were crucial in getting our biolab up and running.   A post shared by MIT Media Lab (@mitmedialab) on Sep 25, 2017 at 3:07pm PDT The pre-conference activities included visits to the Novartis community lab, a tour of Artisan’s asylum, […]

For the last year, we’ve been meeting weekly to build out our DIY BioTech lab and work on skills and content for upcoming class offerings.  Below are some pics highlighting a few of the things we’ve been up to, and answers to some questions that we’ve been asked fairly frequently along the way. Stuff we’ve been asked: Um, that is cool and all, but I’m more into code/hardware. Why bio? Basically, DNA is hardware that is code, and the cost of reading and writing it is dropping faster than the curve […]

Okay, so “The Gang” is a misnomer here, just feeling the Sunny in Philadelphia vibe. It’s been sunny in Orlando all afternoon, where I’ve been sweating against a dumpster for three hours. And an awesome three hours they’ve been. My only goals today were to split molecules and listen to sweet jams and those were thoroughly accomplished. Disclaimer: My highest education in chemistry is a GenChem course in which I am currently enrolled. I am by no means an expert, nor have I read much about what I’m doing. This is an afternoon project in exploration […]

On most Saturday afternoons, we have a meetup at FamiLAB to work on equipping the DIY-BioTech lab, practice techniques for the classes we are putting together, and plan future projects.  (We try to keep the calendar and meetup entries up-to-date, but if you don’t know for sure that we are meeting on a particular weekend, it wouldn’t hurt to check the #diybio channel on slack to make sure we will be around before heading over.) We are currently interested in some techniques that would benefit from being done in a relatively […]