Maker Faire Bay Area 2010
DIY Biology and the Return of the Citizen Scientist Topic(s): Science

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The Lava Amp is an extremely inexpensive hardware platform for performing PCR, the backbone of molecular biology. By reducing the cost of this standard device from thousands of dollars, to hundreds, LavaAmp enables a new generation of "biohackers" to explore biology.

Web site: http://lavaamp.wordpress.com/

Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuIUjhW4VA&feature=player_embedded

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About the Maker(s)

Joseph Jackson Lava Amp Inc
Joseph is a philosopher, social entrepreneur, activist and organizer in the Open Science Movement. He has been studying the political and economic phenomenon of peer to peer, P2P, since encountering Napster in 2001. He advocates for a transition to a decentralized political economy in which abundantly distributed technologies, fully hackable to suit local needs, form the basis for sustainable prosperity.