BY LAUNCHING A FUNDRAISING SITE SPECIFICALLY FOR ITS RESEARCHERS, GEORGIA TECH ADDS A REVIEW PROCESS AND LAB FEES TO THE CROWDFUNDING PROCESS.
Allison Jo Mercer, a researcher at Georgia Tech, is developing an adhesive based on a brilliantly sticky fish. Her work could some day translate into Band-Aids that don’t pull your hair out when you rip them off, safer bandages for serious wounds, or just a better way to stick your GPS unit to your car window. But when she looked for funding for the idea, the reality of decreased government science spending sunk in deep. “Research funding has been cut, cut, cut,” Mercer told Fast Company.
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