Tagged: science

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

April 14, 2013 @ 10:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

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… Read More

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… Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 9:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

February 25, 2013 @ 12:57 pm By TechCrunch  |  

Do you want to know whether cannibalism existed amongst Tyrannosaurus Rexes or whetherspecific viruses contribute to lung cancer risk? Better yet, do you want to be part of making this research happen faster? A Y Combinator-backed startup called Microryza is positioning itself as a “Kickstarter” for science research. The… Read More

February 25, 2013 @ 7:30 am By TheEngineer  |  

Last week you may have noticed an announcement regarding CADScan 3D, a 3D scanner claimed by its developers to bring 3D scanning ‘within the reach of professionals and hobbyists alike.’ With a scanning envelope comparable to many 3D printers on the market, the machine is… Read More

February 15, 2013 @ 4:03 am By Southern California Public Radio  |  

When the X-ray was invented, people clamored to get one. Not for any medical reason, but just to see what was typically hidden inside their bodies. Something like that seems to be happening with DNA sequencing technology. First it was companies offering to sequence people’s… Read More

February 14, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As we collectively enjoy the beginning stages of the crowdfunding movement, the space is dominated by general interest platforms. Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Rockethub have become the “big three” of crowdfunding in the absence of Title III. I’m going to focus on Rockethub because they provide… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 5:22 pm By O'Reilly Radar  |  

In our first science-as-a-service post, I highlighted some of the participants in the ecosystem. In this one, I want to share the changing face of funding. Throughout the 20th century, most scientific research funding has come from one of two sources: government grants or private corporations…. Read More

February 1, 2013 @ 2:26 am By TheVerge  |  

Inside an old storage warehouse in an abandoned shipyard in Copenhagen, Kristian von Bengston and Peter Madsen have been building a one-man rocket ship they intend to send on a 15-minute, parabolic trip to the edge of space and back. Von Bengston and Madsen’s non-profit,… Read More

January 31, 2013 @ 5:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

uBiome will complete a successful Indiegogo campaign today, more than doubling their original goal of $100,000. From the campaign summary… uBiome is a citizen science project that allows the public access to cutting edge sequencing technology to understand their health through the microbiome. Your microbiome is… Read More