Making Money Out of a Home Bio Lab?

[InstantLife]

Hi there, I am InstantLife

I have been doing amateur DIYBio for the past few years and I recently decided that my bedroom was just not sufficient for a functioning lab space. So I bought a 10x5 grow tent some cheap shelving units and a metal table along with the parts to make a bigger and better tabletop laminar flow box. I love the space and I am spending every day in there doing whatever I can to further my experiments. All my projects are going way smoother.

The problem here is I am 17 without a drivers license, working car, or job. I am running out of my savings and I want to be able to make my lab even better. I don't have any connections in Vermont and no luck getting donations or free used equipment locally. I sank $1500 into my lab and I was wondering if there was a way to make up for that? Especially so I can buy/build things like a PCR machine or Electroporator

All I can think is use extra space to grow micro greens or gourmet mushrooms and try to sell them to local restaurants.

Anyone else had any luck with turning a small profit from a home lab?

[Felipe Tanaami]

Maybe you could clone rare plants using tissue culture

[Skyler Gordon]

Growing gourmet mushrooms, while a valiant idea, may be difficult. They often require very sterile environments and expensive substrates (blue corn I think is a common one) to grow the mycelium required for adequate food. 

I would agree that rare plants could be beneficial. Tissue culture would allow them to be shipped more easily, but the consumer is going to have to know how to adjust those plants to soil without killing them. Also, your outlet for sales (i.e. the internet) is going to be your biggest restriction. 

My suggestion would be that you find something important to the economy of your local state (perhaps in the dairy or forestry industry) and see if you can create some sort of assay they don't know they need yet. 

Or get an internship / flip some burgers and save you money. Don't forget - Christmas is right around the corner.

-SG

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Felipe Tanaami <tan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Maybe you could clone rare plants using tissue culture

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[Emily B]

Hey there! I'm a new york times reporter writing about teens who are jumping into the DIY Bio movement. If you'd be willing to chat, please let me know! Thanks!

[Dennis Oleksyuk]

Emily, are you looking for a type of DIYBio where people "modify" their bodies or where people do genetic engineering?

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[InstantLife]

Hey Emily, I just shot you an email. I would love to chat :)

[Skyler Gordon]

I’m not a teen, but would be willing to discuss what I think the direction of the at home / small start-up Biotech and DIYBio groups are taking. Feel free to reach out.

-SG

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Hey Emily, I just shot you an email. I would love to chat :)

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[André Esteves]

Making money with a DIY Lab?

A bioterium? There's always need for laboratory animals. FRogs for
school dissection. Zebra fish for labs, rats etc
Some care would be needed on husbandry and registry of germ lines but
it is often a forgotten area in research...

Cheers,

Andre Esteves

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[John Griessen]

On 11/28/2017 03:47 AM, André Esteves wrote:
> A bioterium? There's always need for laboratory animals. FRogs for
> school dissection. Zebra fish for labs, rats etc
> Some care would be needed on husbandry and registry of germ lines but
> it is often a forgotten area in research...

bacteria-cafeteria.com?
With barcoding level of species verifying, it might become a go-to thing...

[Skyler Gordon]

Get some or design some library prep kits for DNA sequencing, a thermal cycler, and some DNA purification beads and prep sequences for people.

It’ll take you some start up cost.

-SG

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[Reginald Smith]

Write a Kindle eBook on how to build a home DIY Bio lab :)?