Hi Guys, We at Genome Compiler thought for some time to do a kickstarter project for glowing plants as a demonstration for the good that can come with synthetic biology and DIYbio attitude. We're in the process of setting the project out and hopefully our credibility will allow us to raise the money. We plan to use the proceeding to design and order the DNA and collaborate (with the money we raise) with the bio luminescence group at BioC (and possibly other groups like the 2010 Cambridge iGem team and JBEI).
We want to demonstrate how one can start with modest crowd funding source, free design software (genome compiler) and a community lab to create real impactful, beautiful living things. I hope this community will support and join our effort.
I'm also playing with the idea of approaching james cameron (from avatar fame) - he's a friend of peter diamandis from Singularity University (we're a SU company, Peter referred us to Google solve for < X > conference).
Will keep you updated.
Omri
On Saturday, July 14, 2012 5:31:15 PM UTC+3, Recovering Salesman wrote:
It should be noted that ideaconnection is soliciting for their initial round of projects to seek funding (i.e. they haven't proven this works yet) - The 1.5 billion Crowdfunding number is misleading because they're using the entire industry number in a market where the top nexus gets 80%+ of the attention/funding and the other 40 fight over the remaining 20%. For the time being, that would be Kickstarter.com.And Kickstarter could be used for this, I supported this project to great results for a guy who wanted to develop a autonomous algae based biodiesel generating wavepowered robot, sought $2,000 offering rather weaksauce rewards and still scooped about 8000 in funding. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1579413688/biofuel- for-everyone?ref=users My wife and I are actually consulting on a few projects seeking crowdfunding, if anybody wants to talk about fundraising opportunities and the best way to present your idea to that audience, I'd love to help (gratis)On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:26 AM, doctor.perkins <doctor.perkins@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's a website I found recently that may be of interest. IdeaConnection Crowdfunding is a service for creative scientists, engineers, innovators and inventors to raise funds in order to do research, to obtain a provisional patent or a patent, to fund a startup, or to build an invention. It says that last year, crowdfunding projects raised $1.5 billion.On Friday, July 13, 2012 4:05:14 PM UTC-4, Mega wrote:To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/Once again, this old topic :D--
I'm gonna get that DNA synthesized, but first I have to go haunting for fundings.... If you say it will work. It will cost some 3800$ so I have to be sure it works.
The bacterial luciferin-luciferase system per se should work in plants. (Why not?)
If I have it synthesized like this: best viral Plant promotor known - RBS - LuxA (codon usage modified!) - Terminator --- same for Lux B,C,D,E.... it will definitely create the substances needed to glow in planta???
The company will insert it into any vector, so I choose an agrobacterium Ti-Plasmid.
Insert Plasmids (binary system) into agrobacterium. Put it on plant seemen. Goal - a glowing plant??
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