Bioengineering is pervasive these days — just look at your medicine, your makeup, or your food — but the science behind it is still pretty inaccessible to tinkerers. Enter Amino: A small bioengineering lab that will walk you through the process of creating everything from glow-in-the-dark cells to an anti-cancer research compound.
Amino was an MIT Media Lab project that has grown into an independent company. It’s now raising funds for its first production run on IndieGoGo (it’s already far past its original funding goal). Starting at $US700, the desktop lab provides the lab tools to cultivate living cells: The main culture, pipettes, and other tools like inactivator to clean the system when you’re done. You also get the many sensors you need to keep living cells, well, living: pH sensors, temperature sensors, and more are all built into the plywood dashboard.
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