Once a month. Take the Challenge.
Each month we feature one (or more) technology(ies) with potential legal implications and ask:
What’s YOUR answer?
One $25 Starbucks gift card card awarded per challenge based on what we feel is the most judicious response to the highlighted technology(ies), below.
Deadline to be eligible for this month’s Starbucks gift card is December 10, 2014.
OLD NEWS…WITH ONGOING CONCERNS?
The search for material for this month’s Starbucks Challenge led to some older articles describing the rise of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) biotechnology kits, labs and similar concepts allowing lab enthusiasts and budding or established scientists to take matter into their own hands, so to speak. Below are links describing DIY biotech. One article states not to worry about the practice. Another explains the concept and structure of various community labs. Indie Biotech’s website announces the provision of “affordable, Open-Source-DNA development platforms, kits and strains for beginners to learn the engineering of bacteria easily, and perhaps later to facilitate engineering of plants and simple bugs…” Take a look at the featured links and then tell us what you think about DIY biotech, including its implications. Good, bad or something in between?
Slate, You Shouldn’t Fear Do-It-Yourself Biotech
Scientific American, DIY Labs Undergo Makeovers
Indie Biotech, About