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Toronto DIYbio

Toronto DIYbio has gained tremendous momentum over the past year and is preparing to introduce itself as Canada’s newest biohackerspace. Currently hosting monthly organizational meetings, lectures on synthetic biology, and a Molecular Biology of the Cell study group, they are welcoming all guests or contributors to come and be a part of this exciting process. With support from local hackerspace HackLab.TO and art-science gallery Action Potential, they are quickly outgrowing their shared accommodations and will be expanding to an independent laboratory space in 2014. Meeting information can be found at Meetup.com, and stay tuned to the DIYbio Toronto home page and the DIYbio Twitter feed for all information about recent developments and upcoming fundraising campaigns.

SynBioaxlr8r

SynBioaxlr8r has been setup to overcome some of the hurdles that entrepreneurs encounter on their way to success in the exciting field of synthetic biology. This 90-day program is committed to idea-stage startups, offering them lab space and $30,000 in funding as well as world-class mentoring, advice, and support from the top experts in the industry. The synbio entrepreneurs have access to top outsourced DNA synthesis and an open source computer programming language that ...