You could productize it by selling a meat ID service. 'Donate to my kickstarter and when it's funded send me a piece of meat/fish to be identified'
Possible problems for you to address:
Preserving a sample if needed
Shipping time could cause spoilage (preserve, ship with dry ice, only accept from people within a day or two shipping distance)
Would placing a meat slice in isoprop/eth-anol be ok for shipping, or would tissue-internal nucleases/bacteria screw this up?
23andme uses a buffer for shipping, but spit has a lot more surface area than a flesh chunk.
On Mar 21, 2013 7:03 AM, "jarlemag" <jarle.pahr@gmail.com> wrote:
-- Hi. For a while now, I've been thinking of a couple of molecular biology hobby projects regarding species identification of both microbial samples and consumer meat I would like to try.
However, the costs for primer synthesis and sequencing reactions can be, while not too bad, a bit of a strain on a student budget.
So, do you think there would be a willingness or interest in the DIY community to crowd-fund small investigative projects? Already owning basic equipment, as I do, I figure that for a couple hundred $/€, one can do a fair bit of interesting stuff. I imagine about $300-$500 is a reasonable cost range for a small project, but I might of course cover parts of the costs myself, thus decreasing the funding goal for contributions.
Possible projcects I have in mind are:
*Culturing environmental microbial followed by 16S RNA analysis. What (culturable) organisms live in different places?
*Testing and evaluating PCR methods for DIY species identification of meat. (this was discussed on the mailing list a little while ago). Could also include 16S RNA sequencing.
What do you think? Is it worth trying to start a KickStarter for something like this? It would of course have more details than the above descriptions, with article references and an experimental plan to be followed. Results would be made available on OpenWetware
Best regards,
Jarle Pahr
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