A gene gun prototype made from wood and a bicycle pump. Photo: medicalmuseion / Flickr.#### The next generation of DIYBio tools are coming, and this time they mean business. The DIYBio (or ...

Contrary to alarmist headlines, the DIYbio movement is an unlikely biosecurity threat. DIYbio is an easy target for scare stories because it remains something of an unknown. According to the Brookings ...

Science and biology are slowly, but smoothly, being co-opted by a DIY approach that’s looking an awful lot like the start of the tech start-up boom. It makes some sense that this makeshift biological ...

The Wilson Center's Synthetic Biology Project has released a short documentary on the growth of the do-it-yourself biology (DIYbio) movement as seen through a community DIYbio lab in Baltimore, ...

If you're like me, Jurassic Park taught you two valuable lessons: genetic engineering has to be dangerous, and the coolest scientists are chaos obsessed mathematicians. Fifteen years later, I'm ...

I just finished reading "Biopunk: DIY Scientist Hack the Software of Life" by Marcus Wohlsen and I was initially quite smitten with the idea. I thought everything behind DIY biology (DIYBio) is very ...

Furthermore, while concerned parties call for government oversight, the DIYbio community has already proven to be proactive in addressing biosafety and biosecurity concerns. In December 2011, Genspace ...

This article was taken from the July 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on ...

Cathal Garvey's home laboratory in Cork, Ireland, is filled with makeshift equipment. His incubator for bacteria is an old plastic foam shipping box with a heating mat and thermometer that he has ...