The question is, does everyone have to become an enterpreneur? Wouldn't it be smart to have something like an agency that gives you room and equipment and funding in trade for honour and part of the profit? Biohackerspaces are a first step to meeting people with enterpreneurial skill (or the will to learn them). Or the accelerator.
-- > Everyone has an idea but few actually try to make it a reality, the making part is hard.
I have to disagree for some cases. Biotech is pretty young, so you can do a lot with pretty little effort.
Take spider silk. We know the amino acid sequence, and if you want to ,make a spider goat (see the youtube video) all you have to do is have that gene synthesized in an apropriate vector (500-2000$) and microinject. A ready-to use microinjection device is probably also 10.000 $ or more.
Then comes goverment regluation - will it be illegal to do so?
Summary - to find a promoter that ejects the protein in milk glands is easy to find. The silk protein sequence is also known. To design a construct takes like 2 hours, and 3 days to review and think how to improve expression.
Then you'll need the money for all the consumables, equipment, etc etc., paperwork, etc.
Assuming goat sperm is available from farmer's sources for sperm-mediated transfection.
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