Re: [DIYbio] Re: YCombinator for Biotech Open now in SF (Indie Bio prev SynBioAxlr8r)

> The question is, does everyone have to become an enterpreneur?

God no, that'd be awful. But also, not everyone should be a research
scientist, either. Some ideas or projects are best expressed as a
business, others would be ruined by commercialisation. So I wouldn't
encourage someone to pigeon-hole an idea into a commercial context just
to apply for an accelerator, and if they did I think it would be
obvious, and a clear turn-off for investors anyway.

> if you want to, make a spider goat (see the youtube video) all you
> have to do...

I've said it before, but you really underestimate the effort involved in
making transgenic multicellular things! :)

On 22/10/14 20:43, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] wrote:
> 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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