{"id":466,"date":"2010-08-18T04:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T10:27:28","slug":"otyp-more-than-just-another-open-source-pcr-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/otyp-more-than-just-another-open-source-pcr-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Otyp: More than just another open source PCR machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"otyp\" width=\"492\" height=\"329\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp.png 492w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems like everyone is coming up with new open source PCR machines\/thermocyclers. Here&#8217;s another project, this time from an outfit called <a href=\"http:\/\/gen.otyp.es\/\/\">Otyp<\/a>. What&#8217;s unique about this iteration (besides the beautiful prototype photos in this post)? Although they&#8217;re short on details, it&#8217;s part of a broader initiative to bring better biotech education to the school system. One thing they&#8217;re doing right now is <a href=\"http:\/\/gen.otyp.es\/store\/thermal-cycler-24-well-2-week-lease\/\">leasing traditional PCR machines<\/a> to schools. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/gen.otyp.es\/store\/cloning-a-fluorescent-gene-standard\/\">Cloning a Fluorescent Gene kit<\/a> is billed as the biotech equivalent of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hello_world_program\">&#8220;Hello World&#8221; program<\/a>. Otyp is looking for funding on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/peyer\/hello-world-modern-biotechnology-for-high-schools\">Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"otyp2\" width=\"493\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp2.png 493w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/otyp.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems like everyone is coming up with new open source PCR machines\/thermocyclers. Here&#8217;s another project, this time from an outfit called <a href=\"http:\/\/gen.otyp.es\/\/\">Otyp<\/a>. What&#8217;s unique about this iteration (besides the beautiful prototype&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/otyp-more-than-just-another-open-source-pcr-machine\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-pcr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}