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"I am a Neuroscientist working at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tübingen, Germany. In My Research I use a combination of 2-photon imaging, electrophysiology and computational modelling to unravel principles of synaptic and network computations in the vertebrate early visual system. Outside my regular work I am also co-founder of a not-for-profit organisation TReND in Africa, dedicated to foster Neuroscience Education and Research on the African continent. Moreover I am contributor to Open Labware, the design and building of open source laboratory equipment based on off-the-shelf electronics and simple mechanics as made possible by 3D printing"

Labor aus dem Drucker

"100,000 skin samples every year (that's 5 square meters of skin or a full cow's-worth annually) at its lab in Lyon. Currently, the company receives bits of donor skin from plastic surgery procedures. Then L'Oreal breaks the samples down into individual cells, re-cultures and grows them into .5 cm testing squares. The whole process takes about a week to complete but could soon be done much faster thanks to Organovo's NovoGen Bioprinting Platform. ... The bioprinter has already partnered with Merk to create liver and kidney tissues"

Bacteria are often social creatures. Suspended in colonies of varying shapes and sizes, these microbes communicate with their brethren and even other bacterial species - interactions that can sometimes make them more deadly or more resistant to antibiotics. Now, bacterial colonies sculpted into custom shapes by a 3-D printer could be a key to understanding how some antibiotic-resistant infections develop. The new technique uses methods similar to those employed by commercial 3-D printers, which extrude plastic, to create gelatin-based bacterial breeding grounds. These microbial condos can be carved into almost any three-dimensional shape, including pyramids and nested spheres.

"The aim of the project is to get acquainted with usually inaccessible laboratory procedures - extraction of various organic substances and study them further, growing bacteria on agar plates, DNA extraction and sequencing, explant cultures, various behavioral studies (see BrmRat ) and even heredity experiments. A lot of this may be simple stuff you do not need a well-equipped lab for - once we understand the principles, we can make our way forward. Goals The goal of this project is mainly to enable access to experimental biology for everyone interested in it"

"Drop in and learn how to: build a fully-working PCR machine for £25; make a gel electrophoresis rig from Lego (minifigs optional); repurpose an old hard drive into a centrifuge; and hack a rubbish webcam into an anything-but-rubbish microscope. "

"This website is dedicated to the DIYbio movement and aims to facilitate the formation of a like-minded community in Belgium."

"Situé au coeur du campus, aménagé comme un vrai laboratoire de biologie, l'Eprouvette invite le public à se glisser dans la peau de chercheurs pour expérimenter certains grands principes des sciences expérimentales et discuter des enjeux de la recherche."

"Hackteria is a webplatform and collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects instigated in February 2009 by Andy Gracie, Marc Dusseiller and Yashas Shetty, after collaboration during the Interactivos?09 Garage Science at Medialab Prado in Madrid"

"Niederländer wollen Biotechnik demokratisieren: Im Genlabor der Amsterdamer Waag-Gesellschaft können Laien gentechnisch arbeiten. So soll die Biotechnik demokratisiert werden, sagt Gründer Pieter van Bohemeen"

"Craig Venter: 'This isn't a fantasy look at the future. We are doing the future' The pioneering American scientist, who created the world's first synthetic life, is building a gadget that could teletransport medicine and vaccines into our homes or to colonists in space"

"Researchers are using these Philly-made 'bioprinters' to make hearts, stomachs, BioBots makes a device that 3D-prints living cells instead of plastic."

"The BioMed X Innovation Center is an exciting new collaboration model at the interface between academia and industry. At our center, distinguished early career scientists recruited from all over the world are working jointly on novel pre-clinical research projects in the fields of biomedicine, molecular biology, cell biology, diagnostics, bioinformatics, neuroscience and nanomaterials. These interdisciplinary project teams are conducting outstanding biomedical research in an open innovation lab facility on the campus of the University of Heidelberg"

Calico , ETH Zurich "One in particular, the bcat-1 gene, seemed to have disproportionate effect on aging. "When we blocked the effect of this gene, it significantly extended the mean lifespan of the nematode by up to 25 percent," explains Professor Michael Ristow, coordinating author of the recently published study and Professor of Energy Metabolism at ETH Zurich."

"es ist unmöglich, weltweit alle Firmen zu kontrollieren, die DNA herstellen, sagt Paul Keim. "Uns ist schon seit einigen Jahren klar, dass es im Grunde aussichtslos ist, diese Art von Aktivität zu regulieren." Evans betont, man müsse auch die Chancen der Technologie sehen. So hofft er, mit Hilfe des Virus Impfstoffe zu entwickeln.

"The rapid improvement in DNA sequencing has sparked a big data revolution in genomic sciences, which has in turn led to a proliferation of bioinformatics tools. To date, these tools have encountered little adversarial pressure. This paper evaluates the robustness of such tools if (or when ) adversarial attacks manifest. We demonstrate, for the first time, the synthesis of DNA which - when sequenced and processed - gives an at- tacker arbitrary remote code execution. To study the feasibility of creating and synthesizing a DNA-based exploit, we performed our attack on a modified down- stream sequencing utility with a deliberately introduced vulnerability. "