Tagged: glowing plant

August 15, 2014 @ 9:14 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Kickstarter’s first synthetic biology project, the Glowing Plant, which was launched April 2013 by Antony Evans, Fulbright Stanford post-doc fellow Omri Amirav-Drory, PhD and Kyle Taylor, PhD (from Stanford) has made the news again for its syncing with Y Combinator.  The Silicon Valley venture capital firm… Read More

August 5, 2013 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently Kickstarter decided to update their guidelines for project creators where Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are banned from crowdfunding on their platform.  As one commenter described the change as putting “synthetic biology in the same category as hate crimes and tobacco”. While that statement may… Read More

August 3, 2013 @ 9:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A recent Kickstarter project that aimed to reward backers with seeds for glowing plants was very well funded, having raised over $450,000. These seeds were said to produce glowing plants that had been modified with genes from fireflies and bioluminescent bacteria. Thousands of people backed… Read More

June 9, 2013 @ 12:49 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Anton Volney recently posted three interviews with three different Kickstarter project creators. The interviews covered the ethos behind each of the three products as well as some of the strategies employed to find success. All three of the interviews were posted at SucceedInYourPajamas.com, a site… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 8:53 am By Business Insider  |  

A Kickstarter campaign for The Glowing Plant project has stirred the debate over genetically modified organisms. Scientists are planning to use lab techniques to insert DNA that codes for glowing proteins from fireflies and bacteria into plants, so they glow. These glowing plants have been made before —… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 12:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Initially targeted to raise $65,000, the break out success of the crowdfunding campaign  Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity on Kickstarter, now stands at over $460,000 raised by over 8000 contributors. The campaign quickly incorporated stretch goals as it became apparent their crowdfunding initiative was… Read More

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… 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