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b'We recently hosted a conversation between Julie Legault and Justin Pahara, Co-Founders of Amino Labs, and Hisham Ibrahim, Lean Startup Co. Faculty Member, focused on building a product designed to bring biotechnology \\u2014 an area of science typically only accessible to experts in the field \\u2014 to non-experts and beginners.\\n\\nIn Julie, Justin, and Hisham\\u2019s conversation, they discuss:\\n- How they discovered the problem with bringing biotechnology to beginners and how that led to the creation of Amino Labs.\\n- The iterative process they used to build a product that served their customer\\u2019s need, not their want.\\n- How they wrote a book about genetic engineering for beginners using an iterative process.\\n\\nAnd much, much more\\u2026\\n\\n\\nWhen Julie Legault was a masters student at the MIT Media Lab, she was encouraged to try new things and to do things she wouldn\\u2019t normally do. So when Justin Pahara\\u2019s first startup, Synbiota, put on a workshop about a new technology called synthetic biology, Julie gave it a try. \\n\\nFor her, it was a game changer. \\u201cI just discovered something amazing and I can make projects with this,\\u201d she remembers thinking. She and her fellow grad students got really interested in synthetic biology and all of its applications, so they tried to utilize their new knowledge in MIT\\u2019s biotech lab. But that\\u2019s where Julie recognized a big problem in the biotech space \\u2014 there was a huge barrier to entry. If you weren\\u2019t an expert, it was very difficult to learn or gain any type of experience in it. \\n\\nInitially embarrassed by her inexperience, Julie turned the idea that there are no tools that allow beginners to get interested in biotechnology into her graduate thesis. She got overwhelmingly positive feedback, so she kept moving forward with the idea. Eventually, it led her to getting back in touch with Justin for his help and expertise in the area. Together, they founded Amino Labs, a company that builds hardware and provides experiences that makes bioengineering accessible to children and non-scientists.\\n\\nEmail us: education@leanstartup.co\\nFollow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup\\nhttps://leanstartup.co/education'