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Biopunk

DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life

Marcus Wohlsen 2011 Beaverton Library 660.6 WOH

This book is interesting, but it has not aged well. Wohlsen is busy with non-writing projects, perhaps he can find a collaborator to rewrite a second edition,

• index and notes

• Registry of Standard Biological Parts

• p006 vaccines made without millions of chicken eggs, Scientific American 2004 more recent

• p010 2001 anthrax attacks, likely perpetrator USAMRIID researcher Bruce Edwards Ivins

• p020 https://groups.google.com/group/diybio

• p032 one of only five non-royal British subjects ... state funeral Guardian article mentions nine, wikipedia lists 13

• p041 Travellers in Ireland and Scotland

• p041 Meredith L. Patterson https://maradydd.livejournal.com/496085.html | Biopunk Manifesto ]]

• p046 extracting DNA from strawberries

• p051 ELISA enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

• p053 The Wealth of Networks

• p062 pearlbiotech.com gel boxes, seemingly gone 2017

• p065 OpenPCR thermocycler

• p072 Navbharat 151, Monsanto BT seed, Gujarati farmers crossed with other varieties to produce even better seed
• p077 2010, judge throws out Myriad Genetics patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes (related to breast cancer)

• p078 April 1977 Doomsday Tinkering with life

• p084 Andrew Hessel Pink Army Cooperative, seemingly hijacked in 2020

• p100 Aubrey de Grey, dead links: scathing review response

  • probable links: Science fact and the SENS agenda

  • de Grey response: Like it or not, life-extension research extends beyond biogerontology

• p102 Eri Gentry BioCurious

• p105 John Schloendorn meets researcher willing to share research cancer cells. He calls Eri Gentry from a Subway sandwich shop "Eri, Eri, I'm so excited! I have colon and prostate cancer!", disturbing other customers.

• p111 https://www.meetup.com/BioCurious/

• p123 Grim Sleeper serial killer traced through son's DNA

• p123 cost of human genome sequence will close in on zero - no, the cost dived three orders of magnitude between 2006 ( $10M ) and 2011 ( $10K ), but has gone down "only" 20X (to $500 or so) by 2021, 35% per year. On the same graph, Moore's Law is depicted as a straight line 1000x drop in 20 years, 41% per year, 2x per 2 years. Both are impressive improvements, and they will likely continue, but trees do not grow to the sky, and most trendlines hit physical limits eventually.

• p130 F Raymond McCauley

• p138 Folic Acid B₉, MTHFR gene, homocystinuria

• p140 different folic acid vitamin ( L-methylfolate? )for people with absorption troubles

• p141 SNPedia Promethease

• p143 mrgene.com dead link

• p144 J. Chris Anderson in Stanley Hall at UCB (not the TED guy or the Wired editor)

• p148 Clotho synthetic biology software (clothocad.org in notes NFG )

• p150 CoolBot

• p152 iGEM BioBricks

• p155 biofab dead link after 2013

• p156 Synthia subset of Mycoplasma mycoides, JVC1-syn3.0

• p158 Living Root Bridges

• p159 Artemisisin antimalarial drug extracted from Artemisia annua herb around 1980. Market price varies wildly. Synthesized in 2006, marketed by Sanofi in 2014, goal is to tackle a disease that kills 500K people per year. Wohlson whinges about reduced income to farmers ... but what about the millions of lives saved per decade by a stable and affordable supply of life-saving medicine?

• p167 2004, art professor Steve Kurtz arrested and prosecuted for years because of a molecular biology art exhibit.
• p169 2008, government indictment dismissed by federal judge as "insufficient on its face".

• p179 FBI's Edward You, Special Agent Bioterrorism Prevention, arranges booth at iGEM 2009 and the 2010 Outlaw Biology conference

• p180 Eric Drexler Gray Goo, later disvowed.

• p195 Freeman Dyson optimism

• p207 Backyard Brains

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