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  1. I really hope this amateurs can create a cure for today's diseases such as cancer or HIV.
    but if these amateurs are just developing a glowing tattoo, whats with it?

    SAN FRANCISCO - The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.
    Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge available online, these hobbyists are trying to create new life forms through genetic engineering — a field long dominated by Ph.D.s toiling in university and corporate laboratories.

    In her San Francisco dining room lab, for example, 31-year-old computer programmer Meredith L. Patterson is trying to develop genetically altered yogurt bacteria that will glow green to signal the presence of melamine, the chemical that turned Chinese-made baby formula and pet food deadly.

    "People can really work on projects for the good of humanity while learning about something they want to learn about in the process," she said.

    So far, no major gene-splicing discoveries have come out anybody's kitchen or garage.

    But critics of the movement worry that these amateurs could one day unleash an environmental or medical disaster. Defenders say the future Bill Gates of biotech could be developing a cure for cancer in the garage.

    Many of these amateurs may have studied biology in college but have no advanced degrees and are not earning a living in the biotechnology field. Some proudly call themselves "biohackers" — innovators who push technological boundaries and put the spread of knowledge before profits.

    In Cambridge, Mass., a group called DIYbio is setting up a community lab where the public could use chemicals and lab equipment, including a used freezer, scored for free off Craigslist, that drops to 80 degrees below zero, the temperature needed to keep many kinds of bacteria alive.

    Co-founder Mackenzie Cowell, a 24-year-old who majored in biology in college, said amateurs will probably pursue serious work such as new vaccines and super-efficient biofuels, but they might also try, for example, to use squid genes to create tattoos that glow.

    Cowell said such unfettered creativity could produce important discoveries.

    "We should try to make science more sexy and more fun and more like a game," he said.

    Patterson, the computer programmer, wants to insert the gene for fluorescence into yogurt bacteria, applying techniques developed in the 1970s.

    She learned about genetic engineering by reading scientific papers and getting tips from online forums. She ordered jellyfish DNA for a green fluorescent protein from a biological supply company for less than $100. And she built her own lab equipment, including a gel electrophoresis chamber, or DNA analyzer, which she constructed for less than $25, versus more than $200 for a low-end off-the-shelf model.

    Jim Thomas of ETC Group, a biotechnology watchdog organization, warned that synthetic organisms in the hands of amateurs could escape and cause outbreaks of incurable diseases or unpredictable environmental damage.

    "Once you move to people working in their garage or other informal location, there's no safety process in place," he said.

    Some also fear that terrorists might attempt do-it-yourself genetic engineering. But Patterson said: "A terrorist doesn't need to go to the DIYbio community. They can just enroll in their local community college."


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  2. it add up the roadblock after i create a root user and password. great! now i cant access phpmyadmin. :) i cant find a command prompt either in the control pannel to which i can write syntax. i put my files in a folder and transfer it to htdocs folder now. im terrible. what shall i do next?


  3. thanks.

     

    i overwrite index.php inside the htdocs folder since i also have an index.php and i encounter an error.

    should i set a root and password? but where?

     

    i'm sorry , but i;m really new to this.

     

    error:

    Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in C:\xampp\htdocs\includes\connection.php on line 4

    Database connection failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)


  4. thanks all.@mahesh2k thanx for the tutorial. but i cant totally follow the whole tutorial since it teaches wordpress there and i dont know where to find the wp-config-sample.php. :) anyway, i've installed it correctly and running. i have my script written already and so i wanted it to work in the local environtment and hopefully to the internet. how must i do that and where must i put my php files?


  5. i will be installing xampp so this xampp-win32-1.6.8-installer.exe is still sitting here in my desktop and i'd like to doubleclick this to proceed the installation but the problem is.i dont know what script i shall edit to make it work. like php.ini or config.inc and all.what shall i do inorder for it to connect mysql, phpmyadmin and all.

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