Year: 2022

IOPEN SOURCE = EFFICIENT INNOVATION? "Open source can be a more efficient model for getting more innovation faster in a community that shares a common problem or sees a common opportunity. And open innovation is a more efficient model for creating innovation faster for a company that is focused on its own problem or opportunity and is unable, for whatever reason, to cede control." " " http://lnkd.in/d98AsuB View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO: OPEN SOURCE. A key goal for modern synthetic biology is the creation of libraries of standard gene sequences or bolt-on parts (such as the Registry of Standard Biological Parts) that perform desired functions; for those products and services that are commercially available, the more they are used, the cheaper they become, just as in the software industry. Greater availability and spiraling lower costs are exemplified in DNA sequencing, among many other examples. " " http://lnkd.in/dSAHHGJ View in LinkedIn

DEMOCRATIC FORCES IN LIFE SCIENCES. "On the basis of a presumed parallel between genetic and computational code, science journalist Annalee Newitz has called for open-sourcing of genomic databases and declared that "Free our genetic data!" is the rallying cry of the biopunk. Biological Innovation for Open Society is an example of an open-source initiative in biotechnology aiming to apply open license for biological innovation."" " http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopunk View in LinkedIn

MIXING OPEN SOURCE AND TRADITIONAL METHODS: "DNA Freeware May Out-Innovate Patented Genes. Corporations will need to integrate open source with traditional patents for biotech innovations in medicine, renewable materials, and nutrition." In part driven by new patent laws, a new world may be emerging. " " http://lnkd.in/dPaY3v2 View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY TOOLBOX. "One of the main aims of synthetic biology is to make biology easier to engineer. Major efforts in synthetic biology are made to develop a toolbox to design biological systems without having to go through a massive research and technology process. With this “de-skilling” agenda, synthetic biology might finally unleash the full potential of biotechnology and spark a wave of innovation." For good, and for bad. But unstoppable. " " http://lnkd.in/ds7Xf2E View in LinkedIn

FREE BIOTECH RESOURCES include software and genebanks and large organismal databases." " http://lnkd.in/dRFbvFA View in LinkedIn

LAZERPRINTING DNA MAY BECOME CHEAPER. "All harmful DNA sequences are available to the public online. We compare incoming orders with all known viruses and bacteria and simply don't print harmful sequences. Of course there are exemptions for certain research groups such as the CDC who need to study dangerous sequences to remediate outbreaks."" " http://lnkd.in/dkuQ_4B View in LinkedIn

EASE OF MAKING NEW DNA. "What happens when we can make a vaccine as easily as we can make a tweet? Living systems can be programmed with new functions to do commercially or intellectually useful tasks. That could be great, so long as the people who are creating the bacteria are not out to wreak havoc." http://lnkd.in/dMb5UB6 View in LinkedIn

GENTLEMEN SCIENTISTS BECAME INSTITUTIONALIZED. "Prior to the 20th century, science was often the pursuit of gentleman scientists, amateur or self-funded researchers such as Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Darwin. By the mid-20th Century, however, science was dominated by researchers employed by universities and government research laboratories."" " http://lnkd.in/d-n238m View in LinkedIn

PUSHBACK AT INSTITUTIONALIZED SCIENCE. "By the 1970s, this transformation was being called into question. Philosopher Paul Feyerabend called for a "democratization of science." Biochemist Erwin Chargaff advocated a return to science by nature-loving amateurs in the tradition of Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Buffon, and Darwin—science dominated by "amateurship instead of money-biased technical bureaucrats."" " http://lnkd.in/d-n238m View in LinkedIn