Journalist Antonio Regalado over at MIT Tech Review Raised a stink this past week about the failure of The Glowing Plant project. We wanted to share a few of the additional rumors we’ve heard about why the plants won’t glow.
1. Elizabeth Holmes was the lead advisor.
2. The project has been put on hold while the organizers are in M & A talks with Monsanto.
Guest:
John Cumbers, PhD, Synthetic Biologist, NASA Ames
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Listen (4:03) Synbio in UK
Listen (1:45) Intrexon IPO and consumer space
Listen (5:30) Crowdfunding and its discontent
Listen (2:39) GMO OMG
Listen (4:52) Trouble in the DIY space?
Listen (3:21) Resveratrol yogurt
Listen (4:06) Highlights of upcoming SynBioBeta conference
Joining us to kick off a new SynBio Series is John Cumbers, founder of SynBioBeta. Cumbers and his team puts on the annual conference for the synthetic biology community in San Francisco each year. The next one is scheduled for Nov 15, 2013. In today's show, John previews the upcoming conference and reviews some of the events of the past year: the Intrexon IPO, the crowdfunded Glowing Plants Project, and other happenings in this exciting space.
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Guest: Ethan Perlstein, Independent Scientist
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0:55 A declaration of independence
8:14 Setting up an indie lab to do evolutionary pharmacology
19:07 What are you doing for funding?
28:21 Darwin would be tweeting beak sizes
Ethan Perlstein has a message for his fellow scientists: declare independence. Giving up for now on the traditional career path of seeking positions at research institutions around the country, Ethan has gone rogue. What does this mean? How does one become independent? And the $64 million question: how does an independent scientist get funding? These are the questions this young scientist tackles in his own "declaration of independence."
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Transitioning to scientific independence from the tribal world of government-sponsored biomedical research is not easy. The stars have to align in your personal life. For example, having a supportive spouse who will quit their job and move across the country with you. Alas, searing curiosity alone cannot pay the bills. You’ll need a day job, or better yet a complementary, part-time consulting gig that leaves you enough time to do professional-grade science. Even after all that, you’ll still need a place to do the experiments – and of course a way to pay for it.
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Guests:
Antony Evans, Project Manager, Glowing Plants Bio and Contact Info
Listen (6:07) Glowing plants produced before
Listen (5:45) Goals of the project
Listen (9:01) Biggest hurdles on ethical and policy front
Listen (2:27) Democratizing synthetic biology
There’s a new synthetic biology project attracting a lot of attention over at kickstarter. With the title: Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity, the project has already over 5,000 backers and has raised over $300,000. Will this be a great way to introduce synthetic biology to the larger public and inspire others to do similar projects? Here to talk about the goal and details of Glowing Plants is project leader, Antony Evans.
This last weekend “open science” evangelist Joseph Jackson and his colleagues put on the 2nd annual Open Science Summit (we were a media sponsor). The conference was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. Midway through the first day, a small unmanned robot appeared at the door. The little fellow stopped, looked around, then proceeded directly toward the stage forcing Mr. Jackson to pick up the pesky bugger and take him out of the room.
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