RE: [DIYbio] Re: Kickstarter bans project creators from giving away genetically-modified organisms | The Verge

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> From: diybio@googlegroups.com [mailto:diybio@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Bryan Bishop
> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 12:10 PM
> To: diybio@googlegroups.com; Bryan Bishop
> Subject: Re: [DIYbio] Re: Kickstarter bans project creators from giving
> away genetically-modified organisms | The Verge
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> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Reason <reason@fightaging.org> wrote:
>
> It is my understanding that Petridish is a dead thing, its
> founders having
> moved to some other project some months ago having failed to
> create
> sufficient traction to validate the concept to their eyes, and
> the current
>
> Same with Microryza, even with their acceptance into ycombinator. They
> only have like 15 funded projects over their entire existence. I don't
> think they have moved on, but they haven't exactly found a repeatable
> business model.

A pity. It's clearly possible to make this happen under the right
circumstances, as demonstrated by the success of the Methuselah Foundation,
and the work at Longecity, and a bunch of stuff in mainstream per-disease
fundraising that I'm less familiar with. Objectively, it seems to be just a
special case of a tapping a community for funding. No magic there.

I'm all for people trying to find a recipe to enable generalization and
lowering of transaction costs for research (micro|crowd)-fundraising, as
that would greatly enable progress in all sorts of important projects. It
will be unfortunate if this current round of efforts doesn't crack the code,
as we'll probably be waiting the better part of a decade for the next wave
of groups to forget that "it obviously doesn't work" and give it a try. More
optimistically, perhaps it might instead arise as a sideline from a
successful distributed marketplace for laboratory services, as there are
several of those out there at the moment.

Reason

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