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>it's not THAT hard. No, not hard, just crazy expensive. >Biology usually works Under the most basic circumstances. Most startups won't have a business model
by searine 11y ago
>it's not THAT hard.
No, not hard, just crazy expensive.
>Biology usually works
Under the most basic circumstances. Most startups won't have a business model based on doing PCRs with a master-mix.
>For example I have done over 300 gibson assembly reactions and have taught an intern to do this, he made 50 constructs in 2 months, with time left over for him to biochemically test 25 of them.
Likely at a corporation with money to blow on facilities, equipment, and reagents.
We are talking bare-bones start-up here.
>I'm doing something relatively difficult literally in my garage right now
If you want to make impure vitamins and cram them into pills, yeah I guess, but if we are talking even rudimentary biotech level work, then a garage just won't cut it.
- dnautics 11y agoDo you not understand how cheap a gibson assembly is? I priced it out, and each assembly cost on average $2 for the reaction $10 for the competent cells, and maybe about $30 in other costs. Now there is some infrastructure required: If you don't have a -80 to keep competent cells, you would require some tools to make competent cells (like a microfuge spinner) but that infrastructure is not totally expensive.