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		<title>Happy Holidays, say the recombinant bacteria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<title>Product Review: BioTek Microflo liquid dispensing machine</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/461?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of pictures of the BioTek Microflo liquid dispenser.
Device with hatch open and spring tension unlocked:
Device with hatch open and spring tension locked:
This machine has both serial RS-232 and USB; however, the communication link is a proprietary protocol which is only compatible with BioTek&#8217;s Microsoft Windows software.  The machine is not Unix compatible. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy soliciting your feedback on &#8220;Improving Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research&#8221; until Dec 20, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, under directives from the President Obama administration, is soliciting public feedback. Note the deadline!  (Dec. 10th-20th)

Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 7:25 pm by Public Interest Declassification Forum
By Diane DiEuliis and Robynn Sturm
Yesterday we announced the launch of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microplate Standard Dimensions</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/439?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mission of the Microplate Standards Working Group (MSWG) is to recommend, develop, and maintain standards to facilitate automated processing of microplates on behalf of and for acceptance by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Once such standards are approved by the MSWG, they are presented to the governing council of the Society of Biomolecular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Meat 2.0&#8243;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/434?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In synthetic biology conferences, engineering improvements of food is listed in the top three applications of the new technology.  As an example, George Church&#8217;s lab developed a genetic engineering technology specifically aimed at evolving super-tomatoes containing high amounts of the anti-oxident lycopene, as proof-of-concept.  Frequent brainstorming &#8220;what could syn bio do?&#8221; sessions include ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;ELISA Redux&#8221; 96-Well Plate Cryptography Challenge</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/424?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publication GEN is running a contest, with $1,500 plus fancy biotechnology equipment as the prize, for the first one who can decode the cryptographic message hidden in this 96-well plate:

Register on the GEN site to solve the puzzle.  As of today, I haven&#8217;t made much progress in decoding the message, after way too many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battery-powered, Pocket-sized PCR Thermocycler</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/422?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, some bright students at Texas A&#38;M improved upon the most basic tool for manipulating microbiology: a thermocycler.   Thermocyclers are typically large tabletop instruments which require a large sample, a lot of electrical power, and a lot of time to heat and cool.  Alternatively, the process can be done by hand with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add Streaming Video to any Bio-lab!</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/416?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Combining an inexpensive (under $15) USB webcam with free VLC media player software, it is simple to add password-protected internet streaming video for remote users to any lab.  VLC includes the ability to capture from a local webcam, transcode the video data, and stream the video over the web.  It&#8217;s available for OS/X, Unix, Linux, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Bio-lab Automation &#8211; Software for Controlling FIAlab Devices for Microfluidics</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/407?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perl software to control lab syringe pump and valve device, for biology automation, initial version finished today. Works great.  Next, need to add the network code, it can be controlled remotely and in synchronization with other laboratory devices, including the bio-robot.  This software will be used in the microfluidics project.  The software is also part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a needle is not a needle: inside &amp; outside needle diameter variations</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/396?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In various discussions in biology circles there&#8217;s often the lament that &#8220;biology is hard&#8221; (which I agree) and from the biologists there are continued remarks that repeating a protocol in a slightly different way will have poor results.  As an engineer I am fascinated by this because reproducibility is the key to making biology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Always Trust Open Source Software.  Why Trust Open Source Biology?</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/389?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The software you are happily using may be.. unnecessarily brittle. Recently I&#8217;ve been developing a little bit of high-level software using open source libraries.  Sometimes it amazes me that open source software works at all.  Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the internals I found in the open source library when I looked at why it might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perl Bio-Robotics module, Robotics.pm and Robotics::Tecan</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/386?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FYI for Bioperl developers:
I am developing a module for communication with biology robotics, as discussed recently on #bioperl, and I invite your comments.  Currently this module talks to a Tecan genesis workstation robot.  Other vendors are Beckman Biomek, Agilent, etc.  No such modules exist anywhere on the &#8216;net with the exception of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software for Biohackers</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/382?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some open source software collections of biology interest are noted here.  I&#8217;ll update this list as time goes on.  If you would like to have your project listed too, leave a comment with all the fields of the table and I&#8217;ll add your project.  If any of these links do not work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Centrifuge the column(s) at ≥10,000×g (13,000 rpm) for 1 minute, then discard the flow-through.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/380?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A basic equation of physics, for those out there building their own centrifuges:
What are RPM, RCF, and g force and how do I convert between them?
The magnitude of the radial force generated in a centrifuge is expressed relative to the earth&#8217;s gravitational force (g force) and known as the RCF (relative centrifugal field).  RCF values [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial Development of Synthetic Biology Products</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/374?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;BIO hosted a round-table discussion with leading-edge companies on technical and commercial advances in applications of synthetic biology. Speakers in the session represent leading firms in the field, Amyris, BioBricks Foundation, Verdezyne and Codexis.&#8221;

The Progress in Commercial Development of Synthetic Biology Applications podcast can be listened to at this link.
BIO is a biotechnology advocacy, business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3G Cellphone as Biotech Tool: &#8220;Cellular Phone Enabled Non-Invasive Tissue Classifier&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/360?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/360#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent paper in PLoS ONE describes a diagnostic system which uses a common 3G cellphone with bluetooth to assist in point-of-care measurement of tissues, from tissue samples previously taken, with remote data analysis [1].  The hope, of course, is that this could be used for detecting cancer tissue vs. non-cancer tissue.  In general this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioMOO, the biologists&#8217; (biohackers) virtual meeting place; in 1994</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/352?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/352#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in 1994, a university obtained some funding and set up BioMOO:
BioMOO is a virtual meeting place for biologists, connected to the Globewide Network Academy. The main physical part of BioMOO is located at the BioInformatics Unit of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
BioMOO is a professional community of Biology researchers. It is a place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Cost Microcontroller-based Digital Microfluidics using &#8220;Processing&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now tested the digital microfluidics board via microcontroller. The digital microfluidics board moves a liquid droplet via Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD).  The microcontroller switches the high voltage via a switching board (pictured below, using Panasonic PhotoMOS chips), which controls the +930VDC output by the HVPS (posted earlier), and runs over USB using no cost Processing.org software.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comments Re: Woodrow Wilson International Center&#8217;s Talk on Synthetic Biology: Feasibility of the Open Source Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a recent talk on Synthetic Biology, Patents, and Open Source.  This talk is now available via the web; link below.  I&#8217;ve written some comments on viewing the talk, also below.
WASHINGTON &#8211; Wednesday, June 17, 2009 &#8211; Synthetic biology is developing into one of the most exciting fields [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing with the $100K Robots for Biology Automation</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/318?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tecan Genesis Workstation 200:  It&#8217;s an industrial benchtop robot for liquid handling with multiple arms for tray handling and pipetting.

The robot&#8217;s operations are complex, so an integrated development environment is used to program it (though biologists wouldn&#8217;t call it an integrated development environment; maybe they&#8217;d call it a scripting application?), with custom graphical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HVPS for Systems Biology: A Low Cost, High Voltage Power Supply with Schematics + Board Layout</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/303?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have designed this high voltage, low current power supply for various experiments in systems &#38; synthetic biology. I have cleaned up the design and I am placing the schematic and board layout online below!  This circuit outputs up to +1,866VDC at under 1 mA or can be tapped at various points for +622VDC or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Train the Biology Robot: Have the Machine Read the Protocol and Automate Itself</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/290?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine reading these kinds of instructions and performing such a task for a few hours: &#8220;Resuspend pelleted bacterial cells in 250 µl Buffer P1 and transfer to a micro-centrifuge tube. Ensure that RNase A has been added to Buffer P1. No cell clumps should be visible after resuspension of the pellet. If LyseBlue reagent has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Digital Microfluidics for Automating Biology Protocols (sub-microliter droplets)</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/280?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Systems biologists and synthetic biologists spend a large amount of time moving small liquids from one vial to another. I would say it makes up the majority of their work day, even in a technologically cutting-edge lab which has robotics.  Strange, isn&#8217;t it, that the most advanced biological science labs in the world are dependent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analog Data Acquisition from USB Microcontroller using the &#8220;Processing&#8221; Language</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/277?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building on the previous two mini-projects, I have a mini-graphical data acquisition project now running under the Processing language, getting real-world signals from the USB microcontroller (which is a Microchip PIC on a UBW Board from Sparkfun).  Source code below the screenshot.

The sampling rate runs at the frame rate (maximum unknown, perhaps depends on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blinky LED &#8216;Hello World&#8217; using USB Microcontroller in &#8216;Processing&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/273?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every good embedded systems hardware project begins with a blinking LED (or toggling level as seen on the oscilloscope).  In Processing.org language, there&#8217;s the opportunity for both, since the built-in graphics allow for data display as well as the USB microcontroller interface.  (There&#8217;s several Processing projects for Arduino, BTW.)   Source code is below.

The firmware in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Processing.org Language with Microcontrollers</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/270?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media-technology engineers at MIT have created a computer language and easy-to-use runtime environment called Processing, hosted at processing.org.  I wrote a small code snip for accessing the PIC microcontroller from a USB port, using Processing; it&#8217;s pasted below.

The Processing language and frameworks run on top of Java, so all Processing programs can run on Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iPhone 3.0 as next generation Biomedical device</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/268?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s developer preview today, of iPhone 3.0 software, included the interesting news of support for external accessories, either connected through the physical docking connector or through Bluetooth wireless.

A spokesman from Johnson &#38; Johnson announced an iPhone-blood-pressure-monitor accessory, which provides health biometrics and allows the biometrics to be sent over the iPhone&#8217;s network connection as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic Biology Conference 4.0 videos now online</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/265?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the Synthetic Biology 4.0 conference videos online.]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone Needs a PCR Machine</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/262?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1970&#8217;s, groups of nerdy engineers with hacked-up electronics would meet at &#8220;homebrew computing clubs&#8221; to share technology and share the vision of a world where &#8220;everyone has a home computer for running personal software.&#8221;  A couple of these guys like Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were part of the tornado, and look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford University: Programmable Microfluidics (2007) &#8211; Video</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/260?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 3, 2007 lecture by Bill Thies for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). Bill Thies provides an overview of microfluidic technologies from a computer science perspective, highlight areas in the which computer science researchers can contribute to this field; he will also describe recent work in developing new architectures, programming languages, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make some simple biology lab tools</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/257?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes biology lab tools are really simple, and ridiculously obvious (i.e., a petri dish?).   Yet most of the general public form the idea that biology, chemistry, or even nanotechnology, is impossible because we don&#8217;t have high-tech tools.  Maybe it&#8217;s because the research papers always use big words, half of which are some form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play Fold.it, the &#8220;Tetris-On-Steroids&#8221; game that solves protein folding</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/250?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Protein folding&#8221; is what again?
It&#8217;s this: Foldit (curiously, at the web address: &#8220;fold.it&#8221;).  And it&#8217;s fun to play.  Addictive, really.  Check out the picture:

After I had been playing a while, my 8-year old niece came over to my laptop to see what the cute sound-effects were all about.  After a minute of watching, she said:  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build a Spectrophotometer (Schematics included) as a DIY Project</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/239?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran across this published paper.  Most skunkwork types seem to buy used equipment via ebay.    This article explains how to build a spectrophotometer with schematics, illustrations, and photos.  The circuit is simple:  a photoresistor, op amp, and some mechanics for the optics.

The article even includes a Bill of Materials  (component price list); for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Make the News Headlines: &#8220;Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/234?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a nice holiday surprise for me this week, my project (Melaminometer) &#38; a team member (Meredith L. Patterson) made it into Associated Press science news: &#8220;Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home&#8221;.  The article is accurate, and quoted below.  For the melaminometer project, we are also collaborating with Taipei National Yang Ming University.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_on_sc/do_it_yourself_dna
Amateurs are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fundamental Problems in Open Source &#8212; What&#8217;s the Bio Fix?</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/225?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synthetic biology aims to create biological parts which can be connected together to form larger functional devices, and many hope the most poplar library of parts will be &#8220;Open Source&#8221;.  Openly publishing large collections of biological parts is great, as it would rapidly accelerate engineering progress and rapidly diseminate the technology.
There&#8217;s one big drawback to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Average Americans are Scared of &#8220;Synthetic Biology&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/210?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, believe it, non-synthetic biologists have a poor, even fearful, associations when synthetic biology is described to them:
Q: How do the descriptions of these technologies [synthetic biology] make you feel?
Female Respondent: I really thought of sci-fi movies, where, um, something is created in a laboratory, and it always seems great in the beginning, um, but, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetically Engineer Bacteria and/or Yeast using Sound (Ultrasound, Sonoporation)</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/192?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone in the BioBricks realm seems to use a standard method for modifying their organisms: chemical transformation. Yet there is another method which is very promising.
In chemical transformation [3], some standard bacteria is grown, purified, mixed with some chemicals which cut open the bacteria, the new DNA plasmid is added to create some modified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skunkworks Bioengineering &#8212; Prerequisites to Success?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Despite all the support and money evident in the projects, there is absolutely no reason this work could not be done in a garage.  And all of the parts for these projects are now available from the Registry.&#8221;  &#8212; Rob Carlson, iGEM 2008: Surprise &#8212; The Future is Here Already, Nov 2008.

The question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modifying Yeast for Drug Production in Beer &#8211; BioBeer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organisms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How synthetic biology gets done in iGEM competition:

Jam08 Live: Rice &#8211; BioBeer from mac cowell on Vimeo. [1]
Before getting too excited though, keep in mind:

The experiment hasn&#8217;t been verified to work.  The yeast &#8220;seems to be consuming some intermediate products&#8221; however the drug production hasn&#8217;t been verified.
The benefits of resveritrol may be dramatically overstated. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computational Biology for Discovering Protein Function &#8211; as of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bioinformatics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The vast majority of known proteins have not yet been characterized experimentally, and there is very little that is known about their function.&#8221; [1]
A paper just published (Nov 2008) in PLoS Computational Biology describes the fundamental problem of proteins in biology.  It is &#8220;the dogma&#8221; that the DNA sequence is transcribed and translated to protein [...]]]></description>
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