Talk:DIYbio (organization)

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More references[edit]

I have removed some of my older posts from this talk/comment page in exchange for some properly formatted citations of the news articles. Look into the previous revisions if you want to find just plain links to the articles. I hope some of this proves interesting fuel for the article. -- kanzure (talk) 01:52, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated this list of references at [1]. These can be used in the article by wrapping each reference with <ref name="anchor-name"></ref>. -- kanzure (talk) 01:31, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Johnson, Carolyn Y. (2008-09-15). "Accessible science". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  • David ten Have (2010-06-21). "Biotech Tools". Ponoko. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
  • Derek Lowe (2010-03-12). "Garage Biotech". In The Pipeline. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
  • Thesoulhacker (2010-04-09). "Hacking DNA". Biotechnology View. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
  • Andrew Hessel (2010-01-25). "Why DIY Bio?". H+ Magazine. Retrieved 2010-07-11.

Also, I can't seem to get this formatted correctly as a bullet point through wikisyntax:

* General Fabb (2010-04-09). "3D Printing Aids Biohacking". Fabbaloo. Retrieved 2010-07-11.

criticism section[edit]

"closing the door on the profound positive impacts that distributed biological technology will have on human health, the environment, and the standard of living around the world" Seems a bit over the top & POV. Whole section is like that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Westfablomka (talk • contribs) 03:58, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Questionable "Examples" section[edit]

Per this complaint[2] on the DIYbio list, I've removed the following, and fact-tagged it.

The following examples of do-it-yourself biology projects will give a better understanding of what exactly DIYbio is all about. An Irish bio-hacker named Cathal Garvey created an adapter that can be printed on a MakerBot (or any 3D printer). When attached to a Dremel tool it creates a centrifuge capable of performing to the standard of many lab standard models. This creation dropped the price of a centrifuge from thousands to a few dollars and made the technology much more widely available.[1]
Other examples of bio-hacker creations include printable hip-replacement joints [2] and a process that allows DNA extraction to be performed in a shot glass.[citation needed]

Per WP:PRESERVE, I've copied it here. The relevance of 3D printing of non-organic body-part replacements doesn't seem to be within scope for this article. And should there even be an "Examples" section? Shouldn't that sort of the thing be threaded through the entire text of the article? Yakushima (talk) 01:16, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the examples should be throughout the article. Nathan McCorkle re-authored the section to link to projects cited in the news like openpcr, spikerbox, dremelfuge, openspectrometer, pearlbiotech's things, otyp's whateverdoohickey etc. My recent edit was to fix his merge, but shouldn't be misinterpreted as a disagreement with your comments. -- kanzure (talk) 04:53, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK, so since you don't disagree, and since we haven't yet agreed on what to do about what I deleted, I'll delete it again. Yakushima (talk) 05:01, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
And in the process deleted a recent change to the problematic passage. Yikes! Yakushima (talk) 05:06, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the examples section after a few recent edits:

An Irish bio-hacker named Cathal Garvey created an adapter that can be printed on a MakerBot (or any 3D printer). When attached to a Dremel tool it creates a centrifuge capable of performing to the standard of many lab standard models. This creation dropped the price of a centrifuge from thousands to a few dollars and made the technology much more widely available.[3] Josh Perfetto and Tito Jankowski created openPCR, a thermocycler device that heats and cools micro centrifuge tubes filled with PCR reaction mix to amplify DNA. This unit too compares with comparable commercial devices selling for more than 5 times the price.[4] SpikerBox is an amplifier kit for listening to the action potentials generated by neurons.[5] The Pearl Biotech gel electrophoresis box is another example of a key biotech lab item.[6]
  1. ^ "DremelFuge DIY-centrifuge Spins the Best!". 21-Mar-2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Thingiverse: DIY Hip replacement".
  3. ^ "DremelFuge DIY-centrifuge Spins the Best!". 21-Mar-2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Whip Up Some DNA With a Home PCR Machine". 27-Dec-2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "The SpikerBox: A Low Cost, Open-Source BioAmplifier for Increasing Public Participation in Neuroscience Inquiry". 21-Mar-2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "OPEN HARDWARE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY EXPERIMENTS". 29-Oct-2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

If there's agreement that examples should be spread throughout the article, this talk page can at least start collecting and filtering them. Yakushima (talk) 06:31, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

From the DIYbio list discussion of improvement of this article ("Re: [DIYbio] Current examples of DIYbio that I see, what others do people see?")

"Cory Tobin of LA BioHackers experimented and produced a plasmid mini-prep extraction protocol using centrifugal ion chromatography with silica columns and common household ingredients.(http://wiki.biohackers.la/Miniprep)"

Contribution by Nathan McCorkle. Yakushima (talk) 07:01, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Scope of article[edit]

This article should be about the organization/website/mailing list specifically; text about the larger movement should be moved into Do-it-yourself biology. Does anybody have any guidance about how to separate the two? Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 01:42, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I've noticed that none of the references in this article are actually third-party reliable sources about the organization itself. These will need to be provided if this is to remain as a separate article. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 02:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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