Biology

Biodesign and Biomaterials

Biodesign and Biomaterials

At Valldaura Labs in Spain, researchers are looking at different ways to use biomaterials for sustainable living, architecture, energy, and production.

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Safari In The Biohacking Society

Safari In The Biohacking Society

A biohacker is someone with the mindset of a hacker, but who works with different tools, such as pipettes, incubators, tubes or petrie dishes.

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Arduino-Powered Bioreactors Make Home Experimentation Affordable

Arduino-Powered Bioreactors Make Home Experimentation Affordable

Read about how one doctor was inspired to create an Arduino-powered bioreactor and ended up with an affordable, accurate device.

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Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference

Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference

O’Reilly Media held its annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual show  covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial. Here’s some of what we heard at this year’s show: Synthetic Biology Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained that code is now being […]

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The Amyloid Project: Science Meets Art

The Amyloid Project is a collaboration between urbanSTEW and ASU Physics Professor Dr. Vaiana, the purpose of this project is to create a multifaceted artwork that will bring research about intrinsically disordered proteins to life. The Amyloid Project stems from a collaboration between urbanSTEW and ASU biophysics research professor, Dr. Sara Vaiana. Dr. Vaiana’s research focuses […]

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