It has been some 3 and a half years since the incredibly successful Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign. At 484.013 USD the by far largest synthetic biology Kickstarter campaign of all time promised to create auto bio-luminescent capable at glowing in the dark without the addition of extra chemicals. As we previously reported the initiative later morphed into TAXA Biotechnologies, which received another 758.818 USD in funding via WeFunder. The project has become so popular t

Do you remember Glowing Plants, the oversubscribed Kickstarter campaign from couple of years back? To refresh your memory Glowing Plants is a project by Anthony Evans aiming to create a genetically engineered glowing plant just for the fun of it. This was the first Kickstarter funded biotech project made possible by the massive decrease of DNA sequencing and synthesis costs. Bellow is the original Kickstarter video: Fast forward a couple of years and it appears Anthony had mo