The world’s first community biotech lab opened to the public on Dec. 10 in Brooklyn despite the government’s initial concerns about drugs and terrorism, Wired reports.
But law enforcement is now convinced that GenSpace, where anyone can be a member for $100 and however much a labcoat costs, is super safe and meets the requirements for a Biosafety Level One certification.
“The FBI now uses pictures of our space to show people what a [methamphetamine] drug lab doesn’t look like,” co-founder Dan Grushkin told Wired.
Grushkin is working on getting bacteria to play games by using multi-colored chemical tracers to make bacteria ‘travel’ toward or away from one another in a game of microscopic tag. “He hopes that through time-lapse video he will be able to see bacterial clones chase one another in a petri dish as an artistic exercise in the power of genetic engineering,” the website says.
If you need to show someone what a meth lab doesn’t look like, here are Wired’s photos from GenSpace.
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