Interesting Instructable from Dr. Patrik D'haeseleer, Harvard-trained computational biologist and denizen of Sunnyvale biotech hackerspace BioCurious. Bioprinting, which is basically 3D printing with living cells, has been much in the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday April 19th, 2013 4:31 PM
Lego builder Barman makes an amazing stab at creating a fully functional Lego hand. My favorite detail is the motor that makes the fingers spread apart, which is a humanlike...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday January 4th, 2013 9:30 AM
Categories: Science, Fun & Games | 4 Comments
Microbial fuel cells generate electricity from "metal-breathing" bacteria in ordinary mud.
Posted by Ashley Franks
Categories: Electronics, Science | 3 Comments
A tank of healthy jellyfish is hypnotically beautiful. Unfortunately, jellies can’t live in a regular aquarium because they get sucked into the filtration pumps or trapped in “dead spots” at...
Posted by Alex Andon
Categories: Science, Workshop | No Comments
By Sean M. Montgomery and Ira M. Laefsky Excerpted from a Primer on Biosensing in MAKE Volume 26. When you experience an arousing stimulus, like an evocative question, a startling...
Posted by Sean Montgomery
Categories: Electronics, Science | 3 Comments
Create a fun demonstration of the ecological cycles that keep us alive.
Posted by Martin John Brown
Categories: Science | No Comments
Working directly with DNA isn't only for the labs of CSI, agribusiness, and headline-grabbing research institutions. It's basic chemistry, but it uses the molecules of life. You can even do...
Posted by UBC Biology Lab
Categories: Health, Science | No Comments
Use an off-the-shelf home air purifier to culture and grow mushrooms.
Posted by Philip Ross
Categories: Science | 3 Comments
How to make the liquid and solid growth media used to select and propagate bacteria in science labs, using only materials you can find in a day's shopping.
Posted by CathalGarvey
Categories: Science | No Comments
Simon Park’s textile designs are created with social and antisocial bacteria. These are examples from a series of works featuring purely biogenic designs, which explore the inherent creativity of, and...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday November 23rd, 2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Science, Art & Design | 2 Comments
Vassar college Professor John H. Long is a marine biologist, by training, and, now, a roboticist by trade. Essentially, he builds robot populations closely modeled on extinct (and living) fish,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday September 26th, 2012 9:44 AM
From Instructables user hydronics comes this electronic bee-counter that mounts over a hive's entrance, dividing it into many channels, each as wide as a single bee, and each equipped with...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday September 24th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games, Science | 6 Comments
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