[DIYbio] Re: [biocurious] Re: lab-on-a-chip

Nathan:
 
 
The concept for the two transilluminators seems identical: blue illumination from LEDs, orange filter... I am mystified why someone would start a business with a more expensive product than an existing company founded a few years earlier by (afaik) a board member of BioCurious with more or less the same design. It doesn't seem like good advice for a startup. It calls serious question whether or not the people involved have the knowhow to produce a lab on a chip, let alone promise to donate them to "the third world" as a reqard for giving them money. It seems EPICALLY racially insensitive to start a company for a white person to start a company with a sales pitch capitalizing on the suffering of non-whites. 
 
-matt

On Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:16:40 PM UTC-8, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
Matt, see my comments in-line below.
Maybe.

If he didn't ask to use the BioCurious logo, or if Patrik doesn't
consent to being in this film, then that's certainly an issue.

And it'd be hard to rip-off transillumination as a general idea, as
any qPCR type reaction (or nucleic acid quantification in general)
will have illumination /trans/ (across) the sample to a detector
(whether camera or your eyes). It definitely doesn't look like
anything Pearl Biotech has done, at least on their home page.

> -matt


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