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0 pointspcrh11y ago0 comments

So, what can start-ups do to reduce their costs?

For one, they should focus on areas where the reagents are not expensive, e.g. identifying novel natural biological extracts with new activities, consumer genetics (as in 23 and me), or areas such as horticulture. They should avoid things like stem cells and drug development (as opposed to discovery).

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icegreentea11y ago

I should point out that the star of the article (open source taq polymerase) is the bread and butter of genetics research. It is what makes PCR - pretty much the standard way of doing DNA amplification (which any genetics research requires) work.

As it stands now, taq isn't ridiculously expensive, but surely open sourcing will reduce the barrier.

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0 pointspcrh11y ago0 comments

So, what can start-ups do to reduce their costs?

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icegreentea11y ago

As it stands now, taq isn't ridiculously expensive, but surely open sourcing will reduce the barrier.

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