by Ethan Perlstein | Feb 28, 2015 | Blogposts |
On behalf of the PLab team, I would like to wish everyone a happy Rare Disease Day 2015! I hope you all will take a few minutes today to appreciate that 1 in 12 people on Earth is affected by a rare disease. In the spirit of raising awareness about rare diseases,...
by Ethan Perlstein | Feb 6, 2015 | Last Month in Tweets |
I ended 2014 with a “year in tweets” post. Today, I inaugurate the “last month in tweets” series as a fun and hopefully informative way to summarize our progress. Let’s dive right in. A hearty PLab welcome to Alec Ludin, our new lab tech!...
by Ethan Perlstein | Jan 17, 2015 | Start-ups |
PLab fits the mold of a lean startup but with a biotech twist. Over the course of 2014, our first year of existence, we grew bench by bench at QB3@953, the biotech incubator we call home. Every aspect of overhead is itemized, from individual autoclave runs to monthly...
by Ethan Perlstein | Dec 31, 2014 | Blogposts |
Perlstein Lab PBC the company was officially born in February 2014. What have we accomplished since? Here’s a recap of our first year (10 months), told in tweets. Both the team and the lab itself coalesced over the course of the spring and summer. That meant...
by Ethan Perlstein | Sep 17, 2014 | Blogposts |
All memes lose steam. This summer the #ALSIceBucketChallenge drenched America from coast to coast in one of the most successful meme-driven science crowdfunding campaigns on record. The national umbrella ALS charity is called ALSA, and was founded in 1985, two years...