Re: [DIYbio] Digest for diybio@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

[Tom Randall]

The movement did not die, I think, at least in part, it just went local. I co-founded a local biospace inside a makerspace in Durham NC in 2016 (Splat Space Community Biolab; splatspace.org and tridiybio.org, the latter slightly out of date), mainly with surplus equipment from my home lab (roningenetics.org) which is also active. We now have 8-9 active members in the community lab, have helped spun off one agbiotech company (elysiabio.com) and are hosting another, East America Science. We are actively building the lab and applying for grants, and have gotten two recently. Our communication is largely within our group. People are too busy with their internal projects and I suspect some have never even heard ot this group. I suspect some of the other local labs are also largely focused on their own projects too.

By the way, that thread last month about Bishop and the Epstein files, while somewhat off point, may have actually been useful for spurring some activity on this site.

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Hans <hanst...@gmail.com>: May 19 10:16AM -0400 https://discord.gg/55uXhnHgy   That's the DIYBio discord. It's more active than this, but not very. What were you trying to do with DIYbio? I wanted to manufacture super cheap enzymes for other DIYBio people. It was Keoni doing the FreeGenes stuff, but I think that's dead too.   What do you guys think killed the DIYbio movement?   -Hans Wilms

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