Alexander Hoekstra

BOSLab is the DIYbio space of Boston. Our mission is to make science accessible to everyone through outreach, education and our DIY laboratory. At BOSLab you can: - learn from molecular biology to synthetic biology, by doing real things - understand why and how biotechnologies are shaping our future - teach and share your own science with awesome people full of passion

Building a community of people, technology, and research to understand and bring an end to mental dis-ease.

BOSLab is the DIYbio space of Boston. Our mission is to make science accessible to everyone through outreach, education and our DIY laboratory. At BOSLab you can: - learn from molecular biology to synthetic biology, by doing real things - understand why and how biotechnologies are shaping our future - teach and share your own science with awesome people full of passion

Building a community of people, technology, and research to understand and bring an end to mental dis-ease.

The mission of TeloMe (pronounced "tella-me") is to bring affordable biomarker testing to everyone, with a particular focus on telomere length, which has emerged as potentially the single most powerful and modifiable predictor of current and future health. However, current technologies have many limitations and produced some contradictory and questionable results. For maximum affordability and accessibility, we have focused on saliva-based testing, and direct sample collection by mail and courier. TeloMe's suite of technologies provides accurate and reproducible measurement of telomere length in saliva or blood, allowing non-invasive and convenient collection of samples through the mail and in the clinic.