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Prebacked Health Hackathon to Front More Than $100k in Prizes, Oct 19-21

Eri Gentry — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:30:30 +0000

Calling all maker-entrepreneurs in the healthcare space. Here’s an opportunity to get your startup funded on the fast track at Prebacked Health, a hackathon with serious funding on the line, October 19-21, 2012. Awards totaling more than $100k are up for grabs. The typical route for early stage startups is […]

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MedHack – Hackers Take on Medicine – August 10th & 11th in Palo Alto

Eri Gentry — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:30:53 +0000

Medicine in the US is broken. We face a shortage of doctors, looming medical costs, and an average lifespan that doesn’t look all that great compared to other countries. Government isn’t fixing the problem. Neither is industry. And patient empowerment is happening way too slowly. It’s time to hack the system! […]

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Burning Man in Five Minutes: The Playa Time Lapse Project

Eri Gentry — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:00:15 +0000

Check out The Playa Time Lapse Project, which captured a bird's eye view of 27 days of Burning Man set up, break down, and lots of burning. And it all fit into a five minute video. The view is stunning. If you appreciate it, consider helping to fund the next one. Playa Time Lapse 2.0 is live on Kickstarter. Support now and get prints from the Burning Man gallery!

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BioCurious Officially Opens — Test DNA, Build Equipment, Find a Co-founder and More…

Eri Gentry — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:37:03 +0000

Think science is for geeks in lab coats or little kids growing bean trees in styrofoam cups? Time for a rethink. Science has gone DIY. Thousands of people around the world are part of a new brand of research called DIYbio. This group has thousands of engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and students. And lots of artists. This is the kind of collaboration you just don't get inside institutions.

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Search for buried treasure with your very own OpenROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle)

Eri Gentry — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:15 +0000

OpenROV ("ROV1") is a shoebox-sized Arduino-controlled submarine device, with an onboard HD webcam, designed to operate in an unexplored underwater cave.

Cheap DIY GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) Illuminator

Eri Gentry — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:30:02 +0000

Cheap DIY GFP and DsRED Detection Nope, it wasn't a creepy-crawly fetish that got me reading The Worm Breeder's Gazette. Rather, it was talking to Kathryn Hedges--a smart, passionate, and well-credentialed scientist and artist--about The Gazette's tips to make a GFP illuminator on the cheap, that made me sure I had to check it out.

Citizens as sensors

Eri Gentry — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:02:35 +0000

Quick question: If you were having a heart attack and could choose one person to help you &emdash; either a paramedic, 10 miles away, or a CPR-certified neighbor, three blocks away &emdash; who’d make the cut? Since it’s your life at stake, let me give you a few more details […]

Contest: The curiosity-driven life. Your foible could drive the next Citizen Science study!

Eri Gentry — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:46:50 +0000

Have you ever wanted to take a closer look at an aspect of life - such as how diet effects exercise, how exercise effects cognition, how sleep effects your work... Any field of study is free game. And, if you are reading this, you are qualified to submit an entry! Submit questions and entries to eri@genomera.com. For more details, see here. You have until December 15th.

DIYbio NYC on the BioBus

Eri Gentry — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:32:59 +0000

This past weekend, the World Maker Faire in NYC had a wide range of makers showcasing a variety of projects and skills. Front and center was the New York chapter of DIYbio, a scientific outreach group of local citizen scientists, and the BioBus, a mobile microscopy lab built on a […]

Eri Gentry interviews Melanie Swan of DIYgenomics

Eri Gentry — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:53:36 +0000

We have surely entered the age of citizen science! Take, for example, my father’s reaction thirty years ago to a family history of colon cancer. He wholly cut out red meat, began taking vitamins, and started exercising daily. Melanie Swan’s reaction to the same issue, thirty years later, goes far […]