Mackenzie Cowell—Fascination with Synthetic Biology

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az0OyFK14N8&feature=youtube_gdata”]
“In the future there is a really neat opportunity for open source science to be driven by amateurs.”
Mackenzie Cowell is one of a group of amateurs exploring the techniques of synthetic biology, which applies the tools, and methodologies of engineering and computer science to the field of biology. He is the co-founder of DIYbio.org.