{"id":1958,"date":"2008-05-28T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2008-05-28T18:54:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T01:54:05","slug":"amateur-bioengineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/05\/28\/amateur-bioengineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Bioengineering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/07\/01\/03\/1453238\/bill-gates-on-robots\">thinks<\/a> that robots are at the equivalent stage that computers were when he and Paul Allen and a ton of hobbyists helped fuel the PC revolution.  But is he right?  Here is a radical proposal: might not bioengineering be the next field where amateurs have a huge impact?  Such is the hypothesis of DIYbio which had its first <a href=\"http:\/\/diybio.org\/2008\/05\/24\/dont-phage-me-bro\/\">meeting<\/a> in Cambridge, MA on May 1st:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the packed back-room of Asgard&#8217;s Irish Pub in Cambridge, a diverse crowd of 25+ enthusiasts gathered to discuss the next big thing in biology: amateurs. Mackenzie (Mac) Cowell led-off the night with an overview of recent history in biological engineering, and asked the question: Can molecular biology or biotechnology be a hobby? Will advancements in synthetic biology be the tipping point that enables DIYers and garagistas to make meaningful contributions to the biological sciences, outside of traditional institutions? Can <a href=\"http:\/\/diybio.org\">DIYbio.org<\/a> be the Homebrew Computer Club of biology?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates thinks that robots are at the equivalent stage that computers were when he and Paul Allen and a ton of hobbyists helped fuel the PC revolution. But is he right? Here is a radical proposal: might not bioengineering be the next field where amateurs have a huge impact? Such is the hypothesis of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/05\/28\/amateur-bioengineering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amateur Bioengineering?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-computer-science","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}