Gotta say that it's really good when you can start buying kits that make things easier and push down the threshold for someone to do something (especially in science).
BioBricks are standard parts used to make functional pieces of DNA that can be placed into bacteria. The guys behind BioBricks, and their commercial spin-off, have been building and cataloging parts in a Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Making a catalogue and building standard parts are considered a big chunk of getting Synthetic Biology (synthbio, as others call it) off the ground.
Now Ginkgoo, a player in synthbio and a team of folks who are drenched in BioBrick use and knowledge, have released a kit to streamline the assembly of BioBricks into multi-part constructs. And with folks like Mac Cowell of DIYbio working on the manual, there's hope for us outside of acedemia.
A young company with lots of promise, it's great to see them starting to flesh out their products. Looking forward to meeting these folks some day.
Image from the NEB product page.
