“My dad’s got a barn…and a PCR machine!”
On April 24th and 25th in Cambridge, MA, the Boston Open Source Science Lab will be amplifying and sequencing genes for anyone with 40 bucks.
Together, we’ll use the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify a fragment of one of your genes and have the DNA sequenced. The event will be part of the Cambridge Science Festival and will run from 12 - 4 pm on April 24th and 25th.
We’re doing it at the bosslab, located at 339R Summer St, Somerville, MA 02144, at Sprout. The cost of materials is $40 / person.
I will provide primers that will enable us to amplify sections of several popular genes. If you have a particular gene of interest, please get in touch…
That sound you hear is hundreds of clinical geneticists’ panties getting in a wad. And maybe a few IP lawyers, too…
See you there, you DIY rascals you!
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."