LIVE 32 submissions / 186 comments / 1548 upvotes▲72 Show BN: A $180 open-source thermocycler that hits 3 °C/s ramp rates▲63 Base editor corrects a point mutation in adult mouse liver with no detectable off-targets▲53 Ask BN: How do you validate a community lab BSL-1 setup without an institution behind you?▲49 A cell-free protein synthesis kit you can freeze-dry at home▲47 The reproducibility crisis is a metadata crisis▲44 Show BN: I sequenced my sourdough starter and built a strain tracker for it// The revolution will not be peer reviewed.LIVE 32 submissions / 186 comments / 1548 upvotes▲72 Show BN: A $180 open-source thermocycler that hits 3 °C/s ramp rates▲63 Base editor corrects a point mutation in adult mouse liver with no detectable off-targets▲53 Ask BN: How do you validate a community lab BSL-1 setup without an institution behind you?▲49 A cell-free protein synthesis kit you can freeze-dry at home▲47 The reproducibility crisis is a metadata crisis▲44 Show BN: I sequenced my sourdough starter and built a strain tracker for it// The revolution will not be peer reviewed.

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Biopunk News is the feed for the open biotech movement.

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TradBio has reached a dead end: billions spent, decades waited, and the results locked behind a paywall or a patent thicket. Biopunk News is the other channel — preprints, protocols, teardowns, community lab builds, policy fights and the occasional beautiful failure, ranked by the people actually doing the work.

Anyone can read. Handles can submit, comment and upvote. Ranking is points decaying against age, with a nudge for real discussion and a penalty for any one outlet dominating the page — so a bioRxiv preprint from a two-person lab can outrank a press release.

It is part of biopunk.community, alongside the House, the Lab and the fund.

Mission: enable access to experimental science for all.