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

I did check their site just after I sent the first reply, and also
found the earlier discussion on the counterculture board (I had email
turned off accidentally for that group).

Yeah the indiegogo was a bit low on details, and no more on the website.

Matt, looks like a different design. The concept for any
transilluminator for the last 20 or 30 years has fit into 1 of about 3
categories.. so that these two share the same concept doesn't surprise
me at all. They're sensible designs for 2013, except they both lack an
integrated web cam which would easily be reasonable commercially for a
$600 product, So the price is pretty high, I'll give you that.


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:44 PM, hbergeronx <hbergeronx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nathan:
>
> Grenelabs: http://grenelabs.com/transilluminators/
> Pearl: http://www.pearlbiotech.com/c=1 or
> http://www.pearlbiotech.com/assets/docs/Pearl-Biotech-Fact-Sheet.pdf
>
> 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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>> -Nathan
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