{"id":20526,"date":"2010-06-10T08:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T08:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/openpcr-dna-amplification-for-anyone\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T08:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T08:09:03","slug":"openpcr-dna-amplification-for-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/human-genetics\/openpcr-dna-amplification-for-anyone.php","title":{"rendered":"OpenPCR: DNA amplification for anyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openpcr.org\">OpenPCR<\/a> is a cool new project dedicated to building plans for an open source PCR machine. There&rsquo;s not much inherently complicated about a PCR machine and it&rsquo;s about time &mdash; a PCR machine built with $300 in parts using a modern software controller will likely be as powerful as any non-realtime PCR out there. Of course, the reagent pricing is what gets you.<\/p><p>Josh and Tito are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/930368578\/openpcr-open-source-biotech-on-your-desktop\">raising money for this project using Kickstarter<\/a>. $1024 gets them to build you a PCR machine, which is a reasonably good deal in the scheme of scientific equipment. I gave them $8, because I like stickers and already have a PCR machine that doesn&rsquo;t exactly get a lot of use.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ThinkGene?a=bu1ORPrUgDU:Zt_-RXdZTMA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/44ce9_ThinkGene?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ThinkGene?a=bu1ORPrUgDU:Zt_-RXdZTMA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cc242_ThinkGene?i=bu1ORPrUgDU:Zt_-RXdZTMA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f81b6_bu1ORPrUgDU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenPCR is a cool new project dedicated to building plans for an open source PCR machine. There&rsquo;s not much inherently complicated about a PCR machine and it&rsquo;s about time &mdash; a PCR machine built with $300 in parts using a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/human-genetics\/openpcr-dna-amplification-for-anyone.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-genetics"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}