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welcome back we're back live in the booth here last on twenty eleven
gretchen giles and my guest now i'm looking up to have a chance to talk to
erie gentry who is the founding president and c_e_o_ of bio curious and
you presented today already tionships what was the it was uh... garage biology
india white b dot bio
because we can
because we have to send right
you came to do you know what bio
what is the iowa bio as the airline
eighties and network
many people from many different backgrounds who are all brought together
by a lot for sites look for a citizen science
immature biology
there now in florida but
there's a surprising growing number of professional scientists within it
we find it refreshing that people are doing science because they love it
because it's fine returning to the
for white people did science and first base
and what we see out of it
the transition from
professional use planted equipment
do it yourself make your own cheap equipment
oftentimes functions just as was the expensive equipment
and i talked about dea web file
leading up to this
biotech without borders world
we enable labs in places that have never had them
because of the open sewers successful tools that these biomarkers are treating
adult low-cost
they're available to anybody
so you explain this to like
to africa or countries where there
mum israel out of poverty
and alone with no band to create their own labs that is that what you mean when
you say you didn't complete open access
i want to take credit for getting the tools to anybody but
this is what i see as this speech will be at that
it's not just a dream that something that we can help create celebrate
i talk about the potential of delayed by up to try to
inspire people to also get involved
tools army cheaply enough
and made so they're available online
they can be exported to places like that
it's places where
villages earn
are suffering rare diseases
and forget the term right now
but their diseases that affect ob
small villages light
not a place in the world
and their diseases that are profitable for your five very american
to screen pharmaceutical around which cost billions of dollars
these areas don't have the right so it's a diagnostic
to test for diseases nor chimpanzee examples off
have to be sent out to lapse
by the time they return
people can be devastated by the seas
even die
my jane for
dealer by a it does have a medical science
lots of potential but i think the ultimate is helping people
definitely better lives or
tell person people's lives
cheat diagnostics
and made available to everybody
so that
test can be done
without having to be sent out
it's pretty simple and it comes down to cost inaccessibility way open-source saw
about
now how did you come to this because when bond market
what do you you were
economics thats regulate pena con nonexistent
finance comic that's this is kind of a big relief that's a huge to buy
we're not believe
my interests are not mutually exclusive
i love thee
artist gelo finance
having treating sex is fine
i would enjoy doing it if i have enough
spare time
from i mean
reason for working for a living for dealing
it wasn't for filling
and those are the sorts of things they didn't understand
for it went to college
when the time came to make a decision what do you do with the rest your life
and only nd have familiarity with economics and hands i get the time
as i mentioned my talking understand what it meant to be scientists i thought
it was a boring isolating
even though sciences scientist scientist has not
so i went down to stop
continued to be unfilled
but he still loves scientists or read about it i still read about health news
shifts in technology they're making people live longer and better
it's amazing
and
i told the story about
goldman sachs not hiring me
and how is a great experience for me
they didn't hire me realize lake
bus actually relieved sick
i was so happy that i didn't have to get myself in that position where i worked
really hard for seven years
to make a lot of money
and then do something that i thought would benefit the world
itis
rethought what i was doing
i mean it is something
it's a filling in something that positively impacts the world is simple
and
enter able to make a living
that you're not living in january and lower units that
something that there is a really
become a new me mister quantified south india that needs to break the robotic
goes out
fit in with the d_r_ life
bio analytic r_u_ practitioner do tht use is that something that it's a really
great question because we see
overlap
and this sort of
that might do d l empire
sort of person that might to quantify itself
there
practices and exactly related city i went back here
a lot of times making
or you're doing
i'd genetic analysis at home or with others
bonafide self a similar because it's a scientific person
it's personal insights through data
but the date is easily collected through
i found or
um what's very interesting now our commercial prices that you wear
like the body by the
tracks your calories
uses galvanic skin response domineering wow unspeakable and pretty accurate
people tracking their favorite those evenly each easy where when you sleep
or what you're doing
physical activities are even video game
medical implications as well just as india lad bio
you can do about contact not as
like testing if you haven't seen that
predisposing to
there at all times
interesting sort of national curiosity
that woodland somebody to trying even
were beginning to see overlaps and
i think i personally involved in
i hate coordinates this in the disco firefight fell through
and they organize plan seriously doubts
pretty natural that people
jumps point to the other server
my final question is something he touched on the we started which is found
the mixture
but that's your community has
mainstream scientists you know
classically professionally trained
p_h_d_'s
folks who just are interested
i was really surprised to learn that uh... classically trained scientists
mix so well
with their
travel do you know the date that they don't eleven
that they seem to
accepts that and not tremendous is a
your thoughts
when one it like this
there's the disparity in sanctions
some doubt eighty a wet by a seriously
more and more in the past two years the idea around to arafat has been shifting
at first it was
nature wrote
is tlf iyo attracted by a security
and now they're writing
d away by a faith community lab
and
they just the tone has shifted
that you're reading about the same
it's less threatening the more that we do
ants
the more openly are about what we are and why we're doing this i think it does
attract scientists who recently got into it out of
welcome sign
and i mean it's justified in such as have friends who were
dot out of it as quickly as they tried
it's really a place that
kill your creativity and killed the original
uh... that brought you into it
for example
anne creation
so you make
university's campus or
cat an institution
v_i_p_s creatas owned by that
institution
yes pains you know when used have an idea like that's your baby right and
somebody takes it away from you know
but i'm giving harry helmsley
it's true the institution of picked up
found that contrast you can't read to them
that is part of the contracts that
and that's been olympian supported you know to be able to do your research and
and earn a living
as all fascinating stuff five percent of senior talk today and i really
appreciate you coming in talking with us now
where is my pleasure
good to be much like great this week too