Get ready for "citizen science" to transform bioscience. In mid-October, 28-year-old Eri Gentry opened BioCurious, a nonprofit public-use biology laboratory in Sunnyvale, Calif., with 2,400 square ...
The word "biotechnology" conjures up white coats and elaborate glassware, big sterile labs and expensive equipment. But there's a group of amateur scientists that believes it shouldn't be that way — ...
In laboratories across the world, people with multiple degrees work at hygienic benches kitted out with globally recognized brands of scientific equipment. It is there, we assume, that the knowledge ...