I bet 90% of thes "basement labs" are just covers for manufacturing meth. Biology is too expensive, and if you want to pursue synthetic biology you can get wel

I bet 90% of thes "basement labs" are just covers for manufacturing meth. Biology is too expensive, and if you want to pursue synthetic biology you can get well funded to do so by the NIH. You don't need a big corporate lab, you just need to go to grad school.