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  1. What a biotech seed round actually looks like in 2026 (example-venture.org) Funding & Startups 10 points | plasmid_mule | | 6 comments

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[–] garage_genome | 5 points | link

Strongly agree. Our incident log is 90% solvent handling and 10% sharps. Zero biological.

[–] gel41 | 3 points | link

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.

[–] agar35 | 2 points | link

Off-target analysis with GUIDE-seq only tells you about the sites you could capture. I would want long-read whole-genome on at least a few animals before "no detectable" goes in a title.

[–] ferment40 | 4 points | link

It is in there — line 14, the $22 board. The expensive part historically was the Peltier driver and that is what got cheap.

[–] incubate42 | 4 points | link

Fair. The preprint does have ONT data in supplementary S4, though the coverage is thin.

[–] primer39 | 1 point | link

This is the third time this month someone has posted a "cheap X" build where the cost excludes the thing that actually costs money. Where is the temperature controller in that BOM?