What is DNA barcoding, you ask? It’s a far more precise way of identifying plant species. In this video, Ellen Jorgensen — who gave today’s TED Talk “Biohacking, you can do it too” – heads to a remote region of Alaska to collect the fragile plants found there and bring them back to her DIY biotech lab for a crowd-sourced science project.
This video was created by TED’s own Kari Mulholland. Stay tuned to the TED Blog for more videos of cool projects happening at Genspace.
Ellen Jorgensen on what you can do in a DIY biotech lab“It’s a great time to be a molecular biologist,” Ellen Jorgensen says in today’s TED Talk, given at TEDGlobal 2012. The realm of biotechnology is growing fast, she says, and advances are coming down the pipeline at a rapid clip. And yet, scientists aren’t so good at communicating to the public what is going on […]
DIY Biohack!: Fellows Friday with Oliver MedvedikEver want to play with genes? Synthetic biologist Oliver Medvedik thinks anyone should be able to access a biology lab and tinker with the stuff of life. That’s why he co-founded Genspace, the world’s first fully equipped community biolab, where citizen scientists of all stripes meet to explore, experiment and learn about genetic engineering. What […]
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