The equipment can be affordable depending on how you structure things. For example, there are opportunities like the Molecular Foundry user program [1] which pr

The equipment can be affordable depending on how you structure things. For example, there are opportunities like the Molecular Foundry user program [1] which provide grants for the costs of running experiments on expensive machinery. The main trick is having a specific enough question to answer that you can define how the grant would help you do so. There are also community initiatives like BosLab [2] which are more similar to maker spaces in structure. [1] https://foundry.lbl.gov/user-program/get-started-here/ https://foundry.lbl.gov/user-program/get-started-here/ [2] https://www.boslab.org/ https://www.boslab.org/