January 8
We've been working closely with our contract manufacturer the past few weeks to increase production rates. The limiting factor has been quality control. We are testing each individual unit before... Read more
November 20, 2015
We have truly excellent news! Open qPCR single channel units have been coming in from our manufacturer, been tested, and are now going out to customers! This... Read more
October 15, 2015
Here's our latest status:
The single channel units are currently in bulk production at our manufacturer. They've already built circuit boards and are currently kitting the... Read more
August 10, 2015
Here's the latest on the various areas of our project:
We've finalized the design and built several pre-production units by hand. We've purchased all components for the... Read more
May 4, 2015
We've been hard at work bring Open qPCR to life, and have several updates:
We presented Open qPCR at the recent qPCR Symposium in Germany.... Read more
January 19, 2015
We've been hard at work since our Kickstarter closed to make Open qPCR a reality. Here's the latest news.
In the past few weeks, we've:
December 4, 2014
In just one month 484 backers pledged $202,701 (405% of the goal!) to make Real-Time PCR open source. We now have ample funds to manufacture Open qPCR, AND we reached... Read more
December 2, 2014
This is it: we're down to the final 48 hours of the campaign -- please help us spread the word!
This is also the last chance to get an Open... Read more
November 25, 2014
Yesterday we polled our 400 backers about which tests they would most like to see in the Biohacker kit. The results are in:
With that, we are ready to announce... Read more
November 24, 2014
November 20, 2014
Over the course of the Kickstarter we’ve received numerous requests for a multi-channel instrument, and today we’re announcing a new reward level for a dual-channel version of Open qPCR. The... Read more
November 17, 2014
Over the weekend we attended SynBioBeta, a Synthetic Biology startup conference in San Francisco. We were thrilled to see a bit of an ecosystem appearing around connected devices, which is... Read more
November 8, 2014
We’re 5 days into the Kickstarter and have already reached $100,000 in funding. Your support to date has been incredible!
We’d like to announce a $200,000 stretch goal. Since launching... Read more
November 7, 2014
It was a big day yesterday after Kickstarter featured us in their newsletter. We're getting lots of great questions from backers and are working on responding to them all and... Read more
November 6, 2014
We're thrilled to announce that Open qPCR has reached its fundraising goal after less than 3 days! A big thanks to everyone for this enormous show of support so early... Read more
