Amino.bio – Homebrew synthetic biology kit

Re:Amino.bio – Homebrew synthetic biology kit by dekhn on Monday February 08, 2016 @03:18PM (#11060604)

I just went through the exercise of outfitting my home lab, and I think $200-300 is a bit low. Most of the stuff on ebay that goes super-cheap is just broken. You'll spend a lot of time debugging and fixing stuff that is unrelated to your experiment.

For the centrifuge, I'd do 3d-printed rotor on a dremel (https://diybio.org/tag/3d-printing/) I use this already to spin down cells and is... cheap and not very safe.

You didn't mention an autoclave- that's needed to make sure all your buffers and equipment aren't contaminated.

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Re:Amino.bio – Homebrew synthetic biology kit by searine on Monday February 08, 2016 @04:03PM (#11060881)

> I think $200-300 is a bit low

I agree, but you could could get a few basic experiments going for that much. Much much more if you spent 800, like you would on this kit.

>You didn't mention an autoclave

Good point. The only stuff you would really HAVE to autoclave would be media, and you can use an off the shelf pressure cooker for that.

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Re:Amino.bio – Homebrew synthetic biology kit by dekhn on Monday February 08, 2016 @06:26PM (#11061781)

I think you want to autoclave the glassware, since it comes in contact with the media when you're growing up a culture.

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