Community Biotech

I read an interesting book review today about technology and social structure, and of particular interest to me was the write up about community biotech labs and crowed sourced research. The book tells the story of a number of small tech start ups seeking to involve or enable the populace or local communities to participate or undertake their own biological research involving genetics. Biocurious is the featured community biotech lab which teaches people the basics of genetic research as well as providing a community of both enthusiasts and specialists and cheap accessible labs for people to experiment in, poke around their website and you can get a pretty good idea of their program. While Genomera is the featured crowd sourced research group, their web page is pretty uninformative, but what the hell, this shit is totally exciting. I look forward to participating in such research and seeing what interesting studies come from places such as these.