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.
Biosafety take: none of this is a problem at BSL-1 with non-pathogenic chassis. The failure mode in community labs is almost never the organism, it is the chemical waste.