Darning Genes: Biology for the Homebody | h+ Magazine - The Diigo Meta page

• 23 Jun 09
  

  Jeremy Miller
  • When we open science up to the public, we... always get useful results.
  • I come from an academic background in CS and linguistics, and something that’s always frustrated me about academia is the fixation on keeping research secret from other research groups because people are afraid of getting scooped.
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  • • Here, no one cares about getting scooped — the focus is on learning, and if someone else solves a problem first, then that’s great, because that means the problem has been solved. Egos don’t get in the way.
    • most of the cool things I’ve done scientifically have come from cross-pollinating a couple of different research areas.
• 21 Jun 09
  

  Nikolaj Lykke Nielsen

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• 20 Jun 09
  

  Shanta Rohse

  DIY biologists, encouraged by falling costs and urge to solve intractable problems in a new way

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• 19 Jun 09
  

  Andrew Murphie

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  Howard Rheingold

  he describes a convergence of humanity motivated by a love of science and unfettered by profit motives. And while building lab equipment using common household items and even synthesizing new organisms, their grass roots ethic allows the social pressure which creates a more ethical research. They're not only forming co-ops for large lab equipment, but also debating important issues. (Would it be ethical to release a homegrown symbiote that cures scurvy in hundreds of thousands of people?) This movement could someday lead to remedies for disease, fuel-generating microbes, or a social-networked disease-tracking epidemiology.
  
  "In much the same way that homebrew computer science built the world we live in today, garage biology can affect the future we make for ourselves," argues h+ magazine, which featured the article in their summer issue.

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