Question

You are starting a new biotech company and want to use phage as the focus of your company’s efforts. Which of the following ideas will convince your capital venturists to invest in your company?

A)	You want to use phage to eliminate intestinal parasites in dogs

B)	You want to use phage to insert new genes into human cells

C)	You want to use phage to detect bacterial contaminants in food

D)	You want to use phage to transfer genes from bacteria to humans

Answer 1

Capital venturists look at scope, return-on-investment (ROI), risk-analysis, ongoing industry and market trends and other factors before making a investment. For this, it is best to avoid any ideas that require the company to deal with the advanced and highly regulated aspects of phage and living organisms (be them dogs or humans alike). Apart from that. the current food phage industry is a blossoming one. As such the idea that will convince capital venturists to invest in the new biotech company with phage as its focus:
C) You want to use phage to detect bacterial contaminants in food ANSWER