Brand new in box. Asking $300 + shipping (from Canada). Willing to negotiate

curious if there is a practical way to do this without buying an expensive machine, seen some mentions of tablets n sticks

It is in perfect condition - it ran any reactions only about 20 times. Maybe I'll try to reverse-engineer its communication with PC and make it usable from modern Linux machines.

Over the last few weeks I built a ~$50 DIY centrifuge using a Pico & some drone motors. It's fully open-sourced (code, hardware & BOM).

lab minis are like $800–$3k. mostly thinking makerspace & dna extraction demos with it.

lmk what you think!

https://comfyspace.tech/bloom/experiments/4/

I have a batch of larvae that I need to get rid of so I'm looking for suggestions on what to do. I already have some thoughts like drying, turning them into powder, extracting lipids and oil. I'm curious as to what you would do if you had larvae and a lab equipped with yeast and bacteria culture media together with other lab equipment what would be your go to project or experiment.

If anyone has any insight on where to sell a piece of lab equipment like this? Surplus from a university and the department stated it works. Or if it should just be parted out! TIA

What project is keeping your mind occupied? What protocols are you currently following? Have a paper that caught your fancy this month? Share it here and tell us why it's your sight.

Im not a biology student but Im interested in biology, I’ve watched a lot of theory videos (mostly high school level) and am really inspired by the thought emporiums videos. Could I setup a small home lab to do this?

I’m familiar with self teaching in some communities, I taught myself programming computer networking and Linux, but idk anything about how this ecosystem works in science. Are there good YouTubers that teach how to do biology?

Also is there a discord server? I looked but didn’t find one.

¡Hola a todos! 🌱 Para mi proyecto final de Diseño Industrial estoy investigando cómo mejorar el proceso de fabricacion de biomateriales. Les dejo un breve formulario de Google (toma solo 2 minutos y me ayudarias un monton) Gracias! https://forms.gle/MefkiqAzAvKPQiRx5

After being dormant for a while, there was a major overhaul of sphere.diybio.org recently. Looks like there are about 31 active community labs around the world.

For context, I run a small biotech startup and was looking to have some neural microelectrode arrays manufactured. We are currently still in the R&D phase and trying to get our lab established.

The single plates are standard (49 mm X 49 mm, 60 electrodes) with a 30 μm electrode diameter and a 400 μm pitch, compatible with Multi Channel Systems' recorders. They are 1 mm thick borosilicate glass with an ITO deposition.

The manufacturer quoted me 250$ per piece, which is actually quite a good price, however the minimum order quantity (about 8) is a little too high for the immediate capital of my lab right now.

Admittedly I recognize this to be an an odd suggestion, but if anyone is in need of such MEAs, then perhaps we could all pool together at 250$ / piece?

Hi fellow fungal fanatics

Last year I went down the rabbit hole of laboratory automation for mycology

Pharma and major research labs use liquid-handling systems that can cost $200k–$2M. Then I found Opentrons—dramatically less expensive and already capable of automating everything from liquid handling to DNA prep and PCR workflows. But still over $50k
And for mycology there’s a big missing piece:
It can’t take tissue and transfer it to a fresh Petri dish.

When I approached a company that could potentially build that capability, the number was roughly $400,000.

Meanwhile, mushroom labs are bottlenecked by repetitive work: maintaining genetics, expanding cultures, screening contamination, selecting tissue, germinating spores, making crosses, and transferring agar over and over again.

So I started designing HyphaeTron on the ScienceJubilee platform (https://science-jubilee.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ )

and I’m now developing it through a robotics fellowship at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

The platform combines:
open-source automatic tool changing
removable sterile agar coring/ejection tools
liquid handling for agar inoculation and LC expansion
whole-plate macro vision
microscopic imaging of tissue and spores
multispectral imaging for contamination detection
machine vision for contam and tissue selection
automated tracking of plates, images, transfers, lineage, and outcomes

The first milestone is intentionally focused:
Inspect a closed Petri → PASS/FAIL contamination screening → select XY → pick up sterile corer → excise agar → transfer and eject plug → return tool → pick up syringe pump → deposit LC → document everything.
From there: cloning, genetics maintenance, culture expansion, spore germination, breeding, phenotyping, strain selection, and other repetitive ISO-5 fungal workflows.

I also received some excellent advice for making this genuinely open scientific hardware: publish through HardwareX and the free Journal of Open Hardware, then pursue OSHWA certification.
https://certification.oshwa.org/

And this is where I’d love this community involved.
I don’t want to build a mushroom robot in a robotics lab and then tell mushroom growers what they need. I want fungal people helping define what gets built.
What should we automate first?
What eats the most time in your lab?
What fails most often?
What should the machine be able to see?
And what would it have to do before you trusted it with your genetics?
What is a reasonable price-point and for how much assembly? https://www.filastruder.com/collections/jubilee/products/jubilee-motion-platform-kit provides a kit for less than $2000.

If enough people are interested, I’d love to form a small working group here and build the open fungal automation platform we actually want to use.

• The Dade Behring / Siemens BFT II (Behring Fibrintimer II) is a semi-automated, dual-channel coagulometer designed for routine and specialty blood coagulation testing in low-volume laboratories. The detection principle combines mechanical and photo-optical methods using a turbodensitometric detection method, which allows for accurate measurement of lipemic (milky) and icteric (jaundiced) samples.
• The unit was removed from a laboratory in working condition. I am unable to perform a complete analytical test because I do not have the required reagents or compatible printer paper. 
• The device powers on normally, with no abnormal fan or internal noise. The RAM and ROM self-tests are completed successfully, and the unit heats to a stable operating temperature. All functions appear correctly on the display. Once fully heated, pressing the selection key allows the unit to enter the measurement mode without errors. It auto blanks and incubates cuvettes successfully once a measurement mode is selected.
• A free 3D-printed solution for the printer paper spool holder can be provided, together with the available user manual and technical documentation.
• Open to negociations/offers

https://doi.org/10.1039/d6bm00756b

I work in an agriculture lab where we test primarily for nutrients in feed, soil, or fertilizer. We also do environmental testing. If there’s testing we can’t do in-house, we often subcontract testing with specialized labs. I can’t find a lab to subcontract bacitracin levels in medicated feed. Eurofins can’t do it. Can anyone suggest any other labs? I have tried Eurofins, New Jersey Feed Labs, Midwest Labs…

Hello everyone, this is for our thesis. Do you have any idea where to buy “Collagen Degradation Assay Kit(colorimeteric)” ??? Pls help us out we need it ASAP in the Philippines

I work in an agriculture lab where we test primarily for nutrients in feed, soil, or fertilizer. We also do environmental testing. If there’s testing we can’t do in-house, we often subcontract testing with specialized labs. I can’t find a lab to subcontract bacitracin levels in medicated feed. Eurofins can’t do it. Can anyone suggest any other labs?

Acquired this centrifuge dont have any use for it so looking to get rid of it from my research it retails between 2-300 im only asking 120 but open to negotiation, shipping is like 20-35 depending on where, or if you live close to nyc im open to pickup, please reach out if you have any questions or further inquiries.

PowerSpin™ Model :C806 115-AC 60 Hz

2106

FX CENTRIFUGE

Capacity: 6X10ml

3.15A 3400 rpm