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MPEP Random

PatentNerd is a web-page that randomly selects a page out of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure.  A great study tool or to quiz yourself on the go on your cell phone.  Bookmark the automatically loading page at http://www.patentnerd.webs.com/autoload.html

FuturePundit: $10 Device Synthesizes DNA

FuturePundit: $10 Device Synthesizes DNA: "Polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) are widely used to synthesize DNA as part of DNA sequencing work. Dr. Victor Ugaz at Texas A&M University has found a way to speed up the PCR DNA copying process at very low cost.

A pocket-sized device that runs on two AA batteries and copies DNA as accurately as expensive lab equipment has been developed by researchers in the US.

The device has no moving parts and costs just $10 to make. It runs polymerase chain reactions (PCRs), to generate billions of identical copies of a DNA strand, in as little as 20 minutes. This is much faster than the machines currently in use, which take several hours.

The development of cheap miniature devices is the future of biotechnology and is going to do to biotechnology what miniaturization has done to computer technology. Therefore we should expect a huge accelerate of the rate at which biological science advances and the development of very cheap methods of repair of aged bodies."

Know Before You Go

At home genomes:

U.S. scientists are using statistics to identify genetic social interaction traits among animals, thereby finding more productive livestock.

Soon to be handy for those, meet factory clubs, you know like Giant.  

Biotech Hobbyist Magazine

Features:

Tree Cloning

The Biotech Hobbyist Micropropagation Kit will contain everything needed (including further instructions!) except the still air cabinet, pressure cooker, and glass jars.

The Great Ladybug Animation

The Great LadyBug Animation is a database of photographs of ladybugs that have been ordered in quick succession to create a short animation that reveals the intrapopulational variation in the patterns of spots on the insects' wing covers.

Skin Culture

Interested in artificially growing human tissue? The following article is the first installment in a series that will show you how to grow your own skin culture and suggest some very cool projects you can do with it.

Should they’re be laws against these home labs?

MariettaEcon

Just like how some computer businesses or viruses started in a teenagers' garage or room; biotechnology may follow. Due to the cost of hardware falling and genetic information multiplies, bio-hackers are surfacing.  Teenagers can't quite shell out the $50,000 for second hand equipment and basic home-biotechnology lab, but prices are falling. There are a myriad of biology graduates that have graduated and are interested in this. Some have already had success, Agribiotics, which is an agricultural biotechnology firm, was sold for $24 million and it grew from a home run business. A reader from the magazine Biotech Hobbyist, brags that he has created a weed resistant to Roundup. More tell of cloning trees and creating skin-tissue cultures.  

 As interesting as this all sounds, it scares me to know that people have the capabilities to do such things in there homes. With new technology comes the questions of ethical issues and how to handle restraints. Should they're be laws against these home labs? Could this be hurting our economy and/or our environment?  Should there be penalties for wrongdoing?

I think we should allow innovation and freedom, even with personal labs.  The law should strongly encourage personal responsibility however.  Again, I think it's best to be ahead of the curve, lest the politicians take over in a panic.