Thougt about Projects like Folding@home etc.
It should be possible to create simple, maintenance-free, sealed Laboratories with USB-Plugs (or put plans of such devices in the net)
and then use them to do Experiments* faster, which usually would need much more time, for exampe the search for Drugs.
Such devices would'nt be for universal use but for a specific field they could work very well.
Ok, thats an very simple explanation of this idea but i think it would be possible, right?
What you guys think about this?
*Ressources should be distributed in the way some P2P-Programms distribute files or Parts of them
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A941
, Jul 06 2005 02:31 PM
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#1
Posted 06 July 2005 - 02:31 PM
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Posted 09 July 2005 - 08:44 AM
Are you talking about a modular system of components that is able to be connected to a computer and to other modules via a standard interface (ie USB port)? Sort of like a Capsella kit for the lab? Sounds like a good idea so long as you can think of what sort of experimental apparatus in a molecular biology lab setting would not require any contact with reagents and biological materials. I suppose measurement applications first come to mind but one still needs the ability to interface to biologicals. I think the labs of the future would definitely follow such a modular design convention.
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#3
Posted 09 July 2005 - 09:01 AM
I think it might be a way to get people to support a low-budget type of IBG. They could buy these usb labs in the pharmacy and then collect their own microbial samples from local soil for medical bioremeditaion style metagenome screening, for example. They could come specialized and labeled as "heart-disease usb lab" (containing different ketosterol flavors), "Macular degeneration usb lab" (different ocular lipofuscin fluorophores), ect. It'd be fun
Does anyone have knowledge of the necessary technology? What would be the cost of such a thing?
Does anyone have knowledge of the necessary technology? What would be the cost of such a thing?
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#4
Posted 09 July 2005 - 02:10 PM
setting would not require any contact with reagents and biological materials.
Sorry, let me explain:
"sealed" means, all movable Parts are stored within a Box, to fill in Material youll have to, for example, open a sluice, to prevent contamination.
So it wont be necessary to wear special Clothes or work in an germfree area.
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