May 23, 2013 @ 10:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Reported just last week this crowdfunding campaign  on Kickstarter for a Glowing Bioluminescent Plant had surpassed $250,000 – now stands over $385,000.  With 14 days to go the original target of $65,000 has been easily crushed. In a release organizers The Glowing Plant team announced they will be bringing their knowledge of applied science and genetics… Read More

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May 12, 2013 @ 10:08 am By TDN.com  |  

SEATTLE — Dan Jaffe says he didn’t set out intending to go all rogue with his science. “What happened is I was getting discouraged,” he says. “I was starting to wonder whether anyone would even be allowed to ask these basic questions. So I went outside the system.” Jaffe is no anarchist, but an atmospheric chemist… Read More

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May 11, 2013 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Dr. Eva Sapi is a well-established name in the world of Lyme disease research. After contracting the condition herself she has dedicated her career to exploring ways to control and cure the disease, and she now has a campaign on Indiegogo to help further those efforts. Dr. Sapi was a cancer researcher who transferred to… Read More

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May 11, 2013 @ 11:24 am By Huffington Post  |  

You may have heard of Kickstarter – the darling crowdfunding site where artists, designers, moviemakers, and others pitch pet projects to an online funder audience. Kickstarter may have just taken on a new and unwelcome role — as the one-stop shop for risky biotech companies looking to execute an end run around regulation. Generally Kickstarter projects promote… Read More

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May 8, 2013 @ 10:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

What if we used trees to light our streets instead of electric street lamps? The first sentence in the video pitch should give some idea as to the ambition of the crowdfunding campaign for bioluminescent plants. The Kickstarter campaign has crossed a quarter of a million dollars with almost a month to go. Making a… Read More

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April 24, 2013 @ 8:07 am By TechCrunch  |  

Kickstarter might be better known for funding films and hardware projects, but it’s now getting its first synthetic biology proposal. A Singularity University alum, a Stanford post-doc and a Stanford Ph.D. are looking to use synthetic biology and software from startup Genome Compiler to creatingplants that glow. While the first several generations of plants might be… Read More

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April 22, 2013 @ 8:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Josie Baudendistel is working with Dr. Eric Benbow, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Dayton. She has been an author on three conference presentations in association with Dr. Benbow and is now crowdfunding further research on how opossums see in the dark. Oh, yeah… she is in 8th grade. From the… Read More

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April 21, 2013 @ 7:17 am By The Dispatch  |  

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting fast, and Jason Box can’t wait for a government research grant to get him there. To fund his 24th expedition, Box, a climatologist at the Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, is trying something new.Crowdfunding. Box, who had worked at Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center, hopes… Read More

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April 17, 2013 @ 7:57 am By GenEngNews  |  

Poliwogg eyes biopharma startups seeking millions; Microryza connects donors to researchers needing thousands. A year has passed since President Barack Obama enacted a law intended to spark business growth by encouraging “crowdfunding” of startups. Much of the law remains to be implemented, but that hasn’t stopped crowdfunding sites Poliwogg and Microryza from employing different models… Read More

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April 15, 2013 @ 7:23 am By PLOS.org  |  

The White House released its $3.78 trillion fiscal year 2014 budget plan this week after much political wrangling in Washington DC. Among the winners and losers science looks like it’s emerged victorious, with government-funded R&D showing 9% gains over 2012 levels. This news comes closely on the heels of the Rally for Medical Research that was held in front of… Read More

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April 14, 2013 @ 10:13 pm By CFI Correspondent  |  

Crowdfunding site RocketHub has started a project with Popular Science to crowdfund their readers best ideas.  Popular Science has been around for a long time.  By their own records over 140 years having been founded in 1872 by Edward Youmans whose mission was to share the knowledge of science with the masses.  Having covered the… Read More

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April 8, 2013 @ 4:06 pm By StateImpact  |  

You’ve heard of Kickstarter, the website that allows everyone from budding filmmakers to student dancers, to nail polish designers, search for individual funders over the internet. Now, there are crowdfunding websites popping up that focus on scientific research. Two Juniata College professors are turning to one of these to fund their fracking research. Micro-biology professor Regina Lamendella… Read More

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April 2, 2013 @ 9:34 pm By CFI Correspondent  |  

WE ARE THE EXPLORERS: A movie trailer for our space program Crowdfunding for NASA – in a round about way.  Unknown to most people, NASA is barred from purchasing advertising.  Recently a campaign on Indiegogo was launched to purchase a trailer to run prior to the next Star Trek film which will soon be in… Read More

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March 27, 2013 @ 2:02 pm By John Carroll  |  

  A new crowdfunding platform site called Microryza has started funneling cash to dozens of high-risk scientific research programs, including a number of drug development efforts that would otherwise never see the light of day.   Microryza’s co-founder, Cindy Wu, came up with the idea of a Kickstarter-type site for science projects after finding out… Read More

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March 10, 2013 @ 4:46 pm By Salon  |  

On the Good.is website right now is an appeal from Tyler Alterman, a matriculating neuroscientist and self-described scientific detective, seeking cash support for The Think Tank, his lab-on-wheels. This rolling experimentation station will travel the New York metro area to teach the masses about cognition and to draw them into studies about brain function. Here’s “the… Read More

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