Assay Depot Inc. and BioCurious are pleased to announce the Assay Depot/BioCurious Challenge, a science competition open to all Bay Area residents ages 10 to 110 who want to take their research ideas to the next level. Two winners will receive $5,000 in research funding...

Crossposted from synthesis.ccBy Rob Carlson on December 12, 2011 10:09 AM http://www.synthesis.cc/2011/12/the-national-bioeconomy-blueprint.html Last week the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) closed a Request for Information for the National...

Crossposted from Forbes: Adrienne Burke, Contributor 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 feet of “hacker...

So much has happened since BioCurious recently opened. Read on to hear what we've been up to and what we offer to members. Sign up now to lock-in a limited-time only price! The short list: Successfully opened and staffed the lab. (Thanks to our volunteer rockstars...

BioCurious, a hackerspace for biotech, is now open to the public! For $150 a month, amateurs, entrepreneurs, and professional scientists get access to tools, classes, and community at our 2,400 square foot lab in Sunnyvale. Make genetically-engineered bacteria, sequence...

[Crossposted from MAKE. By Tito Jankowski] Come one, come all, science geeks, food lovers, Arduino hackers. Build a magical box with Arduino-inspired technology that will control the temperature of an appliance you hack, up to 0.1 degrees accuracy. October 15th at the...

One a hackerspace, one an NSF funded bi-coastal research facility. Both practice synthetic biology. Now, both sides recognize it's high-time that these disparate groups be brought together by the love of science. A lab is a lab. What's the difference? BioCurious...

I was thrilled to meet Esau Kang (left) and his father, Abraham Kang, at our first public class, a build-your-own-biosphere workshop. Almost unbelievably, BioCurious timed its workshop perfectly to help with Esau's honors bio project. Esau - a freshman in at Los Gatos...

BioCurious had a fabulous time hosting Tim & Greg from backyardbrains.com for the second time. It's one thing to simply consider the neuronal activity of cockroaches -- it's entirely another to see it visualized on your iPhone.   This is a unidirectional reading of...