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The DIY Bio Salon comes to London
On Wednesday 19 March, the Arts Catalyst in Clerkenwell saw curious patrons and international amateur biologists (or “biohackers”), gather for an evening of presentations and discussions as part of...
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Photos of the New Lab Space
The London Hackspace moved to it’s new location on Hackney Road, and these are some photos of the new space.
View ArticleThe iGEM kit has arrived!
Last week we got an exciting package through our door. After a long delay we finally received the iGEM 2014 biobrick distribution containing 1536 different pieces of lyophilised DNA. A few of these...
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Building a DIY Flow Hood
Anyone following me on twitter may have noticed I posted a few pictures of my progress during my build of a simple HEPA filter based laminar flow box (not sure if it’s actually considered a flow hood)....
View ArticleYSB 2.0 Conference
Synbiosoc hosted the YSB 2.0 conference held over two days (September 1st – 2nd 2014) at The Wellcome Trust and UCL. At YSB, young synthetic biologists from the UK came together to share their 2014...
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Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire
On Saturday 15th we showed our JuicyPrint project at the Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire 2014, hosted by London College of Communication, the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly...
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Pyrocystis Lunula
We received some Pyrocystis Lunula but they didn’t seem to be thriving in our Dino bioreactor, but I recently had a look and they seem to have recovered. I’ve recultured them a couple of times now, and...
View ArticleLondon Biohackspace does iGEM 2015!
Following on from last year’s successful London Biohackspace iGEM entry, London Biohackspace will once again be flying the flag for European DIYBio at the iGEM competition! We will be holding an iGEM...
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Yeastograms and Spreading the Word of Biohacking
A quick write up of stuff from a couple of weeks ago – better late than never…. One of the things I’ve been trying to achieve as a member of London Biohackspace for the past 6 months is getting...
View ArticleBiohackers on the Mendel’s Finches podcast
Bethan, Edo and Ilya were on the Mendel’s Finches podcast. It’s up on soundcloud here. Episode blurb: In this special episode, Bethan and Yan Kay give us an inside-look at the world of synthetic...
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Live temp streams from the biolab
Woo! It’s been warm in the UK, but it’s been hotter in the biolab. How hot? this hot…
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Tepnel DNA purification Robot
We received a donation of a Tepnel DNA purification system from a lab that was being decommissioned at the University of Exeter by Dr Amber Griffiths. It boots up and initial tests seem good. We have...
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Hackarium
We had an opportunity to visit Hackarium, located in Lausanne, Switzerland back in June. Hackarium was founded in 2014 – a fairly new community lab. We had the opportunity to interact with the...
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2015 London iGEM bootcamp
The UCL iGEM boot camp is a week long event designed to provide iGEM participants with a crash course in the skills necessary to compete in the iGEM competition. This years boot camp was attended by...
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HTC 2015 (Paris)
Two members from London Biohackspace, Lena and Victoria, had an opportunity to attend the Hello Tomorrow 2015 conference in Paris on 25th-26 June. They had an opportunity to meet innovators,...
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Event: Shuffle Festival
UNITED KINGDOM, London : Shuffle Festival was a week long festival held in Mile End. The week-long festivities involve film, science, storytelling, performance art, architectural installations, walks,...
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Visiting La Paillasse (Paris)
After the Day 1 at HTC 2015 – members from London Biohackspace stopped by at La Paillasse – a community lab located in the centre of Paris. They had a huge lounge, lab section, porch and even a...
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Event: London iGEM teams Meet Up
On the 31st of July, Birbeck and UCL hosted an afternoon of talks and discussions with iGEM members from the Birbeck, UCL, London BIohackspace, Westminster and Kent teams. Followed by poster...
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Chromatography of Biomolecules
As a simple demonstration of the chromatographic separation of plant pigments I followed this procedure: a leaf sample (borrowed from one of my jalapeno plants) was ground up with a small volume of...
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Projects round-up summer 2015
The London Biohackspace is growing momentum and more and more projects are coming out from the heads of our members. As September approached, I thought of rounding up the projects, ideas, new tools and...
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