Hacking

  • Biohacking

    I have an opinion piece on Biohacking in the Innovation Edition of Comstock’s Magazine. As a scientist, I like things to be referenced and annotated, so here is my effort to support the claims and information included in the piece. Good intro to garage  biohacking with Josiah Zayner : Link Article on Liz Parrish and…

  • The Budget Biotech

    I have been toying with the idea of starting my own biotech startup in my garage, and want to determine the lowest amount of upfront investment it would take to set up a functional molecular biology lab. OK, a little background to help the discussion. Straight out of grad school I took a job…

  • Builds I’ll get to eventually

    So I’m swamped with work right now, but I have a number of projects that I want to write up and share. For now I’ll just show some of my old pictures and give a quick overview, and hopefully it motivates me to finish everything. Hopefully… Mini bioreactor controller I tried making a mini…

  • Flow cell spectrophotometer

    While building a mini bioreactor I thought it would be cool to have a personal spectrophotometer to monitor the culture density over the life of the culture. I was inspired when I saw a product from Ibidi for doing live microscopy in an aseptic, optical grade flow cell with luer lock fittings on the inlet and…

  • Budget Molecular Biology Power Supply

    For my first blog post I have chosen to write up a project I did very early in my startup days. The theme of this post is that biotech shouldn’t be so dang expensive. While setting up a molecular biology lab for a startup biotech, I was shocked at the industry prices on equipment and reagents,…