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I have worked in both University and Private sector labs and studied biology at UT Austin.
After leaving academic research I helped form Prophase BioStudios and built a laboratory out of a local Hackerspace.
Using the laboratory at Prophase BioStudios I started doing my own independent experiments that led me to create my Biomanufacturing company, Portunus.
My interests are primarily in biotechnology, particularly in the realms of fabrication and human enhancement.
Living Ink on Demand and its effects on Research
This interview with the founder of the company BioInk discusses how the 2.5 year old company provides affordable bioprinting to customers from 50 countries.
With companies like BioInk being able to print human tissues, drug trials and experimentation are predicted to become substantially cheaper and allow for costs and time for development to decrease. With smaller scientific companies and institutions being able to afford to bioprint the speed of innovations in biotechnology is set to increase and move biotechnology towards a more open-sourced model.
The company is able to produce printable cellulose and collagen as well as stem cells. This could also have applications for a lot more than drug development as well. Printed cellulose could be a novel form of art and a way for artists to print something mimicking plant structure.
Listen to this podcast to hear an explanation of how this technology works, its ethical effects and new technologies that this product can enable.
