The SF Bay Area community bio labs (BioCurious and Counter Culture Labs [0]) are considering using this platform to try and fund their iGEM team, researching inducing UV resistance in E. Coli and then optimizing it with directed evolution. Community labs have effectively no funding to operate with, so these types of platforms (Experiment, Kickstarter, etc) are incredibly important for them.

If you'd like to support the SF Bay Area community labs and hobbyist biologists trying to do real research without academic and commercial funding, watch the Experiment.com biology section [1] over the next week or two!

[0] http://biocurious.org/ and https://counterculturelabs.org/ [1] https://experiment.com/discover