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DIYbio FAQ v1.5: "The biohacker's FAQ"

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This topic DIYbio In The News is part of the DIYBio FAQ

Has DIYbio been in the news?

Here's a list of some references; add others.

• 2012-02-14: A Lab of His Own (genomeweb.com)
• 2012-02-13: Doing Biotech in My Basement (technologyreview.com)
• 2012-02-13: E. coli vials found in Arkansas apartment used to treat aliment (foxnews.com)
• 2012-02-08: Race to keep a lid on labs creating 'artificial life' amid boom in DIY biohackers (dailymail.co.uk)
• 2011-10-26: Biohacking on the Rise (genomeweb.com)
• 2011-09-09: Finnish biohacker community (blog.ossoil.com)
• 2011-09-08: OpenPCR and GeneLaser (garagebio.org)
• 2011-09-03: Biohacking at London Hackspace (jakeisbloging.wordpress.com)
• 2011-09-02: AAAS Science - Podcast - DIYbio and Genspace (sciencemag.org)
• 2011-09-01: Do-It-Yourself Bioengineers Bedeviled by Society's Paranoia: Current Stance against Independent Biological Innovation Is Counterproductive (genengnews.com)
• 2011-08-31: Molecular Biotechniques Workshop (arcollab.com)
• 2011-08-27: Ethics of genetic testing (garagebio.org)
• 2011-08-20: What microbes are lurking in your fish tank? (microbe.net)
• 2011-08-19: Genome at Home: Biohackers Build Their Own Labs (wired.com)
• 2011-08-19: DIYBio Los Angeles: Interview with Romie Littrell (arsbiologica.org)
• 2011-08-11: The Biohackers: mucking about with the stuff of life (abc.net.au)
• 2011-07-29: OSCON - Garage Biology And DIYbio: Because We Can, Because We Have To (openpcr.org)
• 2011-07-26: OpenPCR in the Wild (openpcr.org)
• 2011-07-06: DNA is now DIY: OpenPCR ships worldwide (openpcr.org)
• 2011-06-23: Should synthetic biology be policed? (Forbes)
• 2011-06-09: An outbreak of crowdsourcing (sciblogs.co.nz)
• 2011-06-01: DIY 'biopunks' want science in hands of people (USA Today)
• 2011-05-05: Biohacking 101: Tools of the Biopunk Trade (genomealberta.ca)
• 2011-05-02: Do-It-Yourself Biology And The History Of Risk In Science (science20.com)
• 2011-04-28: Biopunk - DIY Open Source Biology (beta-lab.nl)
• 2011-04-21: Can Hobbyists and Hackers Transform Biotechnology? (technologyreview.com) (HN)
• 2011-04-15: Review: Biopunk; A tremendous introduction to one of the most exciting branches of individual superempowerment emerging today. (shloky.com)
• 2011-04-15: Biopunk: the "great and terrible power" of indie biotech? (boingboing.net)
• 2011-04-14: Hacking ourselves: Biopunk (bostonbiotechwatch.com)
• 2011-04-14: Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life (boingboing.net)
• 2011-04-14: A weekend of biohacking at FutureLabCamp (newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab)
• 2011-04-13: Biotechnology: DIY biology (Nature)
• 2011-04-11: Whay 2011 will be the year that diybio takes off (Brian Degger)
• 2011-04-11: Putting the DIY in DNA (newscientist.com)
• 2011-04-10: Outer genes just around the corner (bioretrosynth.issb.genopole.fr)
• 2011-04-09: The loaded ethics of DNA hacking (salon.com)
• 2011-03-05: We are all biologists (pdf, page 42) (raskmedia.com)
• 2011-03-04: Cheap DIY GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) Illuminator (makezine.com)
• 2011-03-03: Opinion: On regulation (Andrew Ellington) (the-scientist.com)
• 2011-02-15: Do-it-yourself biologists (DIYbio) e a ciência cidadã (synbiobrasil.org)
• 2011-02-09: 'DIY' Biologists Look to Bring PCR to the Masses with $512 OpenPCR Thermal Cycler (genomeweb.com)
• 2011-02-05: Should we worry about anti-makers? (science20.com)
• 2011-02-02: DIYBio and biotinkering - Laws and regulations in Germany (streamspace.blogspot.com)
• 2011-02-01: Faking Organisms: How can we govern the garage biologists who are tinkering with life? (slate.com)
• 2011-01-29: Taste of Tech: Biohacking the Future (gearfuse.com)
• 2011-01-28: Personal Manufacturing and the Gada Prize (and DIYbio) (youtube.com)
• 2011-01-24: Meat Tenderizer & a Salad Spinner: Home Biotech (showblogs.syfy.com)
• 2011-01-17: Poor countries urged to get ready for synthetic biology (scidev.net)
• 2011-01-17: Augmenting Humanity @HeatSync Labs (pervailproject.blogspot.com)
• 2011-01-07: Suffer the future: a painful stab at ushering in the new (marcuswohlsen.com)
• 2011-01-07: Glue guns and DIY biohacking (catchingstars.net)
• 2011-01-04: Quantified Self logs on to self-tracking (San Francisco Chronicle)
• 2011-01-03: Citizen scientists carving out new roles via the Web (bendbulletin.com)
• 2011-01-02: Re: Transcending the Human, DIY Style (exi-chat.blogspot.com)
• 2011-01-02: London Hackspace - Biohacking projects to start Saturday January 15 2011
• 2011-01-01: What is “Practical Microbiology”? (practicalmicrobes.com)
• 2011-01-01: Event in Singapore (January 8 2011) (scienceandtechnologiez.blogspot.com) [1]
• 2010-12-31: Use the Data for All They're Worth (genomeweb.com) (re: Journal of Participatory Medicine)
• 2010-12-31: DIYbio, a 2010 year in review (letters.cunningprojects.com)
• 2010-12-30: Transcending the Human, DIY Style (Wired)
• 2010-12-27: Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web (NYTimes)
• 2010-12-24: Science, Law Enforcement Build Biotech Bridges (Science Magazine/AAAS)
• 2010-12-23: Citizen Science Genomics as a Model for Crowdsourced Preventive Medicine Research (Journal of Participatory Medicine)
• 2010-12-22: Technology: A flavour of the future (nature.com)
• 2010-12-22: Future Foragers: Dunne & Raby Redesign Human Digestion to Redefine "Food" (good.is)
• 2010-12-22: Biotech for the masses (motherboard.tv)
• 2010-12-21: Biohacklab: Prochain meeting: Mardi 11 Janvier & atelier Neurohack (bio.tmplab.org)
• 2010-12-21: Identifying the sea changes and opportunities in "biohacking" (thinktech.honadvblogs.com)
• 2010-12-21: OpenPCR at the Grenswerk Art Festival (Enschede, the Netherlands) (openpcr.org)
• 2010-12-19: Turning Geek Into Chic (NY Times)
• 2010-12-17: Genspace: Open for Business (genspace.org) ([2], msnbc)
• 2010-12-17: Despite Concerns, Brooklyn's New Lab Is Not For Making Meth (observer.com)
• 2010-12-16: DIY Biotech Hacker Space Opens in NYC (Wired) ([3])
• 2010-12-16: Synthetic biology needs oversight not over-regulation, commission finds. (Nature News) also on SciAm, KurzweilAI, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, The Scientist
• 2010-12-16: Home Labs on the Rise for the Fun of Science (NY Times)
• 2010-12-16: Bay Area Aging: A summary of important themes in aging research (Melanie Swan) (mariakonovalenko.wordpress.com)
• 2010-12-15: The rise of the genome bloggers: Hobbyists add depth to ancestry trawls. (Nature News)
• 2010-12-07: Synthetic biology: The innovation and bioterrorism balance (ethicalcorp.com)
• 2010-12-07: Piracy in the age of DIYbio (diybio.org)
• 2010-12-05: Wetware (scenariosandstrategy.wordpress.com)
• 2010-12-02: Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life, coming spring 2011 (marcuswohlsen.com)
• 2010-12-01: DIY Plant Genetic Engineering (howplantswork.wordpress.com)
• 2010-11-29: BioCurious? Interview with Joseph Jackson about DIY Biotech (arsbiologica.org)
• 2010-11-26: The Future of Science? (noodlemaz.wordpress.com)
• 2010-11-25: US 'artificial life' to take middle ground (bioethics2010bu.blogspot.com) or The Scientist
• 2010-11-22: I Brew, Therefore I am (diybio.org)
• 2010-11-19: More Stem Cell Magic (synthesis.cc)
• 2010-11-14: DIYbio at the iGEM conference (biologigaragen.org)
• 2010-11-12: Critical Art Ensemble on the import of garage biology today (p2pfoundation.net)
• 2010-11-05: DIYbio and the "MAN" (diybio.org)
• 2010-11-04: Whither “Biohackers?” (diybio.org)
• 2010-10-30: Open source-biologi baner vej for bioterror fra garagen (ing.dk)
• 2010-10-23: DIYBio gets a little more local...Bangalore just got one - is there one in your area? (chaaraka.blogspot.com)
• 2010-10-19: Bio-Hackers – Not Just a Title for a Bad Science Fiction Movie (blogs.ischool.utexas.edu)
• 2010-10-18: Garage ribofunk going mainstream (futurismic.com)
• 2010-10-15: DIY BioHacking (technomage.org)
• 2010-10-15: The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech (slashdot.org)
• 2010-10-13: DIY biotechnology (wetmachine.com)
• 2010-10-12: Biohack the Planet! A New Generation of Hackers Sweep Across the Country (blogs.kentlaw.edu)
• 2010-10-11: A Do-It-Yourself Genomic Challenge to Myriad, the FDA and the Future of Genetic Tests (genomicslawreport.com)
• 2010-10-11: Garage biotech in Nature magazine (makezine.com) (crosspost; Lava-Amp)
• 2010-10-10: Consumer genomic testing update (futurememes.blogspot.com)
• 2010-10-08: On the importance of sequenced model organisms, & a crude taxonomy of their users (orthonormalruss.blogspot.com)
• 2010-10-08: The Garage Lab (genomeweb.com)
• 2010-10-07: More on Garage Biotech (pipeline.corante.com)
• 2010-10-06: Editorial: Garage biology: Amateur scientists who experiment at home should be welcomed by the professionals (nature.com)
• 2010-10-06: Garage biotech: Life hackers (nature.com)
• 2010-10-04: On spoofing (ellingtonlab.org)
• 2010-10-01: DIYbio NYC on the BioBus (makezine.com)
• 2010-09-29: Citizen Science and Biocurious (sugru.com)
• 2010-09-28: Interview with Melanie Swan of DIYgenomics (makezine.com)
• 2010-09-27: DIYbio NYC/BioBus Collaboration Wins MAKE Magazine Editors' Choice Award (diybionyc.blogspot.com)
• 2010-09-27: Genetic Science Oozes Out of Amateurs' Garages (livescience.com)
• 2010-09-25: On curiosity (ellingtonlab.org)
• 2010-09-23: Biohackers aim to open Silicon Valley lab for group research and lessons (mercurynews.com)
• 2010-09-20: $30,000 Given by 200+ People to Open Biotechnology Hackerspace (medgadget.com)
• 2010-09-18: An interview with Mark Frauenfelder (openwear.org)
• 2010-09-17: BioCurious and the DIY Science Movement (kickstarter.com)
• 2010-09-15: Quick thoughts on the bioethics commission meeting (sciencepark.cc)
• 2010-09-11: The future of biotech patents (hatewasabi.wordpress.com)
• 2010-09-01: Personalized investigation (nature.com)
• 2010-09-01: Biotech revolution must start with education (hplusmagazine.com)
• 2010-09-01: Do-It-Yourself Bioengineers Bedeviled by Society's Paranoia (genengnews.com)
• 2010-08-25: itty bitty hydroponic grow box (boingboing.net)
• 2010-08-24: Cheap PCR: new low cost machines challenge traditional designs (biotechniques.com)
• 2010-08-24: Biohackers – the geneticists in the garage (euroscientist.com)
• 2010-08-18: Otyp nears Kickstarter goal to make DNA thermal cyclers for high schoolers (boingboing.net)
• 2010-08-17: Synthetic biology, ethics, and the hacker culture (2020science.org)
• 2010-08-16: OTYP is Making Biotech Cool (huffingtonpost.com)
• 2010-08-13: Garage-lab bugs: spread of bioscience increases bioterrorism risks (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
• 2010-08-03: Making the modern do-it-yourself biology laboratory (video) (singularityhub.com)
• 2010-08-03: Citizen Science, Microfinanced Research, Patent Trolls, and Pharma Prizes: A Final Dispatch from Open Science Summit (reason.com)
• 2010-08-02: Biotech movement hopes to spur rise of citizen scientists (boston.com)
• 2010-07-30: Review of Open Science Summit 2010 (Thursday session) (singularityhub.com)
• 2010-07-30: Crowd-sourced science funding (blogs.nature.com)
• 2010-07-30: Scenes from the Open Science Summit (reason.com)
• 2010-07-15: Eri Gentry's biotech revolution (wired.co.uk) also on diybio.org
• 2010-07-14: DIY Biotechnologists Go Looking for a Bigger Garage (theatlantic.com)
• 2010-07-07: The Open Science Shift (xconomy.com)
• 2010-07-07: A new biology in the twenty first century: the project (fieldtest.us)
• 2010-07-06: Curing Cancer in a Garage? (iftf.org)
• 2010-07-05: Help fund a hackerspace for biology (boingboing.net)
• 2010-07-05: Biocurious; a Hackerspace for Biotechnology. Please Help!
• 2010-06-30: The New Hacker Hobby That Will Change the World (technewsworld.com); (Hacker News)
• 2010-06-29: Responsible science for DIY biologists (prnewswire.com)
• 2010-06-26: Let's get the biotech revolution started - support biocurious!
• 2010-06-22: Storm the Royal Society?
• 2010-06-22: The science behind the tour
• 2010-06-22: Citizen scientists: easy ideas for kids and adults to study the environment (annarbor.com)
• 2010-06-22: Institute for the Future Announces BodyShock: Call for Entries (pr-inside.com)
• 2010-06-22: Five mobile health contests you should know (mobihealthnews.com)
• 2010-06-21: Do we need a DIYbio Academy? (molecularist.com)
• 2010-06-21: Biotech Tools (ponoko.com)
• 2010-06-16: Bringing biohacking to the masses (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
• 2010-06-16: Citizen Science: Birders Contribute Valuable Data on Invasive Plant Species (sciencedaily.com)
• 2010-06-16: Fluorescent Black Arrives in July
• 2010-06-14: Recognizing Lightweight Innovation: Key Characteristics and Technology Drivers (iftf.org)
• 2010-06-11: Cockroach pimps a sweet ride (hackaday.com)
• 2010-06-07: The Tumbling Walls of Formal Science (fightaging.org)
• 2010-06-03: The importance of speed in PCR (openpcr.org)
• 2010-06-01: Not so scary: synthetic life (poptranshumanism.com)
• 2010-06-01: Growing Public Interest In Genetic Science Sparks Some Bio-Security Concerns (National Defense Magazine)
• 2010-05-25: Who's afraid of synthetic biology? (reason.com)
• 2010-05-19: Citizen-Scientist Joseph Jackson and the New Open Source (hplusmagazine.com)
• 2010-05-20: Make-offs: DIY indie innovations. How low-cost, open-source tools are energizing DIY. (O'Reilly Radar)
• 2010-05-04: Citizen Scientists Attract FBI's WMD Unit (Burn After Reading)
• 2010-04-26: Amateurs explore their genomes via DNA cocktail (boston.com)
• 2010-04-23: Gør-det-selv-biotek er på vej til din garage (Ingeniøren)
• 2010-04-09: Garage biology
• 2010-04-09: 3D printing aids biohacking (fabbaloo.com)
• 2010-04-09: Bioengineering technology is maturing, and so is its vocabulary
• 2010-03-31: Life hacking with 3D printing and DIY DNA kits (BBC)
• 2010-03-28: The shift from top-down to bottom-up production (brief mention)
• 2010-03-25: Andrew Hessel talks about synthetic biology and diybio (diybio4beginners)
• 2010-03-24: Garage Biology Bad for Science?
• 2010-03-23: DIYbio and the Gentleman Scientist
• 2010-03-12: Garage biotech (In The Pipeline)
• 2010-03-11: The Roving Eye: Clamatology, A Bio-Garage In Silicon Valley, Mickey The Crony Capitalist
• 2010-03-11: BioSecurity: How synthetic biology is changing the way we look at biology and biological threats
• 2010-03-08: Garage Biology in Silicon Valley; see it on Make Magazine, The Technium (Kevin Kelly), ...
• 2010-03-07: The promise of biotech
• 2010-03-04: Letters: Do it yourself genetic engineering (NY Times)
• 2010-03-03: Biology Student to Hold Biohacking Meeting at CCBC
• 2010-03-02: Inexpensive gene copier for DIY molecular biology (boingboing.net)
• 2010-02-26: Biotech on a Budget
• 2010-02-16: DIY Genetics-Biotechnology by Parents, Artists, and...Potential Terrorists (blogs.kentlaw.edu)
• 2010-02-16: From Hackerspace To Your Garage: Downloading DIY Hardware Over the Web (H+ Magazine)
• 2010-02-14: The wild world of DIY synthetic biology: Get your designer life forms here! (popsci.com)
• 2010-02-14: Do-it-yourself genetic engineering (NY Times)
• 2010-02-12: DNA Discovery in Middle School (diybio.org)
• 2010-02-02: Biohacking - Auf der Suche nach Hacks und Exploits in Molekülen und Gensträngen (Chaos Radio Podcast Network)
• 2010-01-25: Why DIY Bio? (H+ Magazine)
• 2010-01-25: Open-Source Lab Promises Free DNA Parts for Bioengineers (popsci.com)
• 2010-01-22: DIYbio: Growing movement takes on aging in H+ Magazine; discussed on Slashdot, reddit and ycombinator hackernews; futurismic;
• 2010-01-15: Culturing bioluminescent microbes, part 1 (has100ideas.com)
• 2010-01-10: Reinventing the Pharmaceutical Industry, without the Industry (The Futurist)
• 2009-12-27: Taking Biological Research Out Of The Laboratory (NPR)
• 2009-12-20: Do-it-yourself biology grows with technology (SF Chronicle)
• 2009-12-14: The need for plain English diybio safety guidelines
• 2009-12-14: Bio-Bastler. „Kreative Wissenschaftsbürger“. (Profil)
• 2009-11-20: Gen-Manipulation am heimischen Küchentisch (welt.de)
• 2009-11-17: Hobby molecular biology (jimlund.org)
• 2009-11-13: diybio-nyc at nycresistor
• 2009-10-31: LavaAmp: Cheap Pocket PCR Thermocycler Dreamed for DIY Biologists
• 2009-09-11: Synthetic biology will bring us a slimy, moist future (wired.co.uk)
• 2009-09-03: Tinkering with DNA (The Economist) paywall alert
• 2009-08-26: And the Innovation Continues...Starting with Shake and Bake Meth! (synthesis.cc)
• 2009-08-19: DIYbio and Authentic Learning
• 2009-08-06: DIY bio groups forming
• 2009-08-01: Am I a biohazard? (The Scientist)
• 2009-07-25: DIYbio, biohackers, and Open Source Medicine
• 2009-07-20: DIYbio considers mushroom identification (mycorant.com)
• 2009-06-18: CNC Plotter: A platform for DIY Bio/rapid-prototyping/sculpture-image experiments (invivia.com)
• 2009-06-15: Darning Genes: Biology for the Homebody
• 2009-06-12: Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class (slashdot.org); cnn
• 2009-06-03: Another Step Toward DIYStemCells (synthesis.cc)
• 2009-06-02: Extending the free software paradigm to DIY Biology (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
• 2009-06-01: The death of DIY Bio? Or the birth of a new cuisine.... (Gourmet Magazine)
• 2009-05-18: In attics and closets, "biohackers" prove the spirit of Thomas Edison endures
• 2009-05-15: Garage Ribofunk: The Rise of Homebrew Genetic Engineering
• 2009-05-14: Biohacking: harmless hobby or global threat?
• 2009-05-12: In Attics and Closets, 'Biohackers' Discover Their Inner Frankenstein
• 2009-04-29: Who is diybio.org? (Singularity Hub)
• 2009-04-28: Do-it-yourself biohacking (Singularity Hub)
• 2009-04-14: What's in my closet? A biology lab (JSCMS)
• 2009-04-02: DIYbio San Francisco - Glow in the Dark 1 (diybio.org)
• 2009-03-18: The Geneticist in the Garage (The Guardian)
• 2009-03-16: Genomeweb.com article (?)
• 2009-03-16: DIY bio, programming culture, and the cultural divide
• 2009-02-16: Homemade Molecular Biology Labs aim to create Synthetic Life (labtimes.org)
• 2009-01-20: Biohacking: The Open Wetware Future
• 2009-01-19: DIY DNA: One Father's Attempt to Hack His Daughter's Genetic Code (Wired)
• 2009-01-14: Kuldell/Shetty Do-It-Yourself Biology (video) (mitworld.mit.edu)
• 2009-01-07: Rise of the garage genome hackers (New Scientist)
• 2009-01-06: DIY bioengineering - recap of the recent MIT Soapbox session on DIYbio (ginkgobioworks.com)
• 2009-01-04: DIY biology projects - What's your motivation? (scienceblogs.com)
• 2009-01-01: DIYbio for biohackers (makezine.com)
• 2008-12-30: Students, Scientists Build Biological Machines (transcript) (Lehrer on PBS) (video)
• 2008-12-29: DIY bio will not end the world
• 2008-12-25: Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home (Slashdot)
• 2008-12-18: Público: Biohackers: reventar y reinventar la biología desde los garajes
• 2008-12-11: The Biohacking Hobbyist (Seed Magazine)
• 2008-09-15: Household biohacking coming to a neighborhood near you! (blog.openwetware.org)
• 2008-09-15: Hackers aim to make biology household practice
• 2008-08-22: Fish Tale Has DNA Hook: Students Find Bad Labels (NY Times)
• 2008-06-13: Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture (2020science.org)
• 2008-06-06: A Homebrew Club for Biogeeks (io9.com)
• 2008-05-24: Don't Phage Me, Bro (diybio.org)
• 2008-05-19: DIY Synthetic Biology
• 2008-03-05: The conditions of a mass biotech DIY movement
• 2007-11-06: Homebrew Molecular Biology Club
• 2007-11-05: Patient's vision: Treating cancer without chemo
• 2007-11-04: An Intel Approach to Meds
• 2007-07-19: Our Biotech Future by Freeman Dyson (NY Books)
• 2007-06-14: Terrorizing the artists in the USA
• 2007-01-24: What is BioDIY?
• 2006-08-18: Make Magazine: Backyard Biology (Make Magazine)
• 2006-04-23: Biotech DIYers, do not hesitate
• 2005-05-01: Splice it yourself (Wired)
• 2005-04-28: The Future of Open Source Biotechnology (fightaging.org)
• 2004-06-02: Offbeat Materials at Professor's Home Set Off Bioterror Alarm (Washington Post)
• 2002-11-21: The Future and its Friends (In The Pipeline)
• also, there have been many news stories from the pre-DIYbio era which should be in this list