Even better than a home lab is finding a friend who works in a research lab, and shadowing them while they do experiments. Safety is an obvious benefit to this

Even better than a home lab is finding a friend who works in a research lab, and shadowing them while they do experiments. Safety is an obvious benefit to this approach, but it also allows you get exposure to more interesting and complex experiments that are more cutting edge and comparable to the kinds of work you'd actually do at a company. These labs have access to equipment and reagents that you cant get anywhere else. From what Ive seen the at home stuff you can do is incredibly limited This approach also gives you exposure to proper experimental design and technique, which is really hard to learn on your own because biology experiments take so long. Biology experiments take long enough even if you know how to do them