'..it hints at a future that would not be out of place in a science fiction novel .. This is not about the future – it's about what's happening right now..'
'Humankind has long sought to truly understand the building blocks of life and to be able to manipulate them for its own purposes, and genetics is an area of intense research and development with potentially huge rewards for those who make significant advances.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a key technique employed in genetics whereby small pieces of DNA are amplified by several orders of magnitude. This is fundamental to processes such as DNA cloning and sequencing, the analysis of genes for hereditary and infectious diseases, and to identify genetic fingerprints. The reaction requires a piece of specialist laboratory apparatus which can accurately control and cycle the temperature of DNA samples, and these are typically expensive, costing thousands of pounds. But this changed with the arrival of
OpenPCR, a personal PCR machine that is available as a kit for $599 and with a design that has been made available under the GPL v3 licence.
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The OpenPCR blog suggests that the machine could be used to expose fraud at a sushi restaurant, diagnose diseases such as HIV and H1N1, or to explore your own genome. But this is only the beginning as far as possible applications are concerned, and as they succinctly put it, “DNA is now DIY”. Now that such equipment is becoming affordable it should come as no surprise that intrepid amateurs are getting in on the action, and the motivations of these “bio-hackers” are varied, ranging from doing it for fun and as a hobby, to starting a business in the hope of making a highly profitable breakthrough.'
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'..technology is optimised for reuse, and recycling is taken to the point where closed-loop manufacturing becomes a possibility and there is minimal waste and environmental impact.''..This potential energy fills your cells. I think this energy is critical to an understanding of how your cells work.'
- Gerald H. Pollack
"Immunity, intelligence, appetites, tumor growth, aging, the proper development of organs-everything that we think of as the biological foundations of health and sickness-will be misinterpreted if there are fundamental misconceptions about physiology."
- Ray Peat, PhD
“In 1968 or ‘69, I had been reading the previous’ 50 years of research on cell physiology, and I saw that for 18 years,
Gilbert Ling had been almost alone in offering a view of the cell that was physically possible. He had solved the problems of ionic regulation in ways that physical chemists could accept, but biologists were preceding as if his solutions to their problems didn’t exist. I wrote to him, to see if I, as a newcomer to “science,” was missing something. He said that I just didn’t understand what “science” was; it was a matter of money, prestige, and influence, with little concern for what was true.”
- Ray Peat, PhD
Battle Royale: The Blood & Guts of Cell TheoryContextThe Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and VaporOpen Source Drug Discovery (OSDD)(The Electric Universe - Electrified plasma) To Heal - '..the new world of plasma medicine..'..Open Source Infrastructure..'..global production, data and energy infrastructure [that] will unburden our planet.' -
Classic (Original) Introduction - Bazaarmodel