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I am building standardized and modular mass-distributed DNA toolkits. Two blog posts for context: https://blog.libredna.org/post/cheapdna/ https://blog.libredn
by koeng 6y ago
I am building standardized and modular mass-distributed DNA toolkits.
Two blog posts for context:
https://blog.libredna.org/post/cheapdna/ https://blog.libredna.org/post/cheapdna/
https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/ https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/
Website offering version 1:
https://www.sporenetlabs.com/ https://www.sporenetlabs.com/
I pretty much figured out (after quite a few years) how to distribute DNA for 100x-200x cheaper. Right now, I’m building DNA toolkits for engineering every different organism (it’s expensive, but I’m doing it in collaboration with other companies). All open source, too.
Imagine if you could get a toolkit to engineer literally any life form for less than $100. It’d be super cool!
The “money maker” here is that my DNA foundry can build DNA together from my toolkits quicker and cheaper than anyone else, which is attractive for new companies who want to engineer stuff using my toolkits.
It’s a work in progress, but I’m actively working on it, and I’m ramen profitable from my B2B part. Good times ahead!
- verdverm 6y agoVery cool What do you think about the apocalypse story that a person uses something like this to make a virus worse than covid? (or the AI fears but with bio)
- koeng 6y agoI am a bigger fan of the hero stories where everyone is able to fight an epidemic themselves, instead of being subject to the whims of pharma / ineffective government policy. The moderna vaccine basically took a weekend to design, but many months to test, since they were going to give millions of doses out. What if one day, every small town had the ability to manufacture independently designed vaccines for local usage (once we have a better grasp of the background biology). It is quite likely that, while some of the vaccines may be toxic, they'll certainly be less toxic than the disease itself, and the distribution means that variation controls against new variants of the virus.
- verdverm 6y agoah, we share an important idea, distributed means of production, as a way to hedge against societal collapse
- oriettaxx 6y agovery interesting. btw: the link in "If you would like to support the development of Sporenet, check out the shop at Sporenet Labs." at https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/ https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/ takes me to a missing page: https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/sporenetlabs.com https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/sporenetlabs.com