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[A941]

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

[John Schloendorn]

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?

[A941]

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.