Re: [DIYbio] What is your biggest problem?

Thank you, Seth!

I am aware of three potential business opportunities that can help advance DIY Bio:

1. List of what needs to be tested. My church group wants to address the replication crisis by conducting replication studies, but it is very difficult for us to monitor the full range of journals to find-out what has already been replicated and what needs to be tested. I know of undergraduate programs, explorer posts, and student organizations who would be interested in helping to fill the replication need. The DIY bio community could be interested in taking assignments from the list, but would also be interested in adding assignment to the list--we want our own discoveries to be confirmed by others and being outside academia makes it more difficult to arrange.

2. Registry for testing bounties. Could be related to #1. Grant makers currently include budgets for open access publishing with every grant. Suppose they also included a bounty to cover supplies for the first X registered reports to pass peer-review for replication of whatever gets open access published? I understand that scientists currently spend 40% of their time applying for funding, but funding a replication study of what you just funded is a no-brainer. It should take hardly any time to arrange that kind of funding, and funders should not complain if bio hackers add additional measures to their replication studies, so they can also test their own hypotheses--voila! DIY bio funding solved (as well as some of the inefficiency of professional science)!  

3. GitHub for ethics review. Commercial IRB review currently costs thousands of dollars per protocol. It is possible to form ad-hoc IRBs and spend maybe just $50 as an honorarium for a consultant (plus a potential fee to use the platform)

 https://osf.io/39xhw/wiki/Initial%20Formation%20of%20a%20Committee/  

Best Wishes,

Chris Santos-Lang

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:40 AM Seth Donnelley <newbiolutions@gmail.com> wrote:

As a young biologist, I would like to build a career on helping DIY bio and "biohacking" labs to grow and further advance science. I would like to know about your most painful, biggest problem with your lab, and why it's such a big problem for you (i.e. why it hasn't been solved yet). Reply by email or feel free to call me sometime at +1 484-889-5281.

Thanks for your time.

Seth Donnelley

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