Re: [DIYbio] Why are PCR machines and biotech equipment in general so expensive


this is only my honest opinion from my experience:

I bought a open source 3d printer - in industry they had
such things for 3 decades - but they costed
several hundred thousands

the open source thing works fine but for 90% of the time
its in maintenance and I am the machine engineer

I think the open source things are not yet reliable enough.
 
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 at 1:57 PM
From: "Ujjwal Thaakar" <ujjwalthaakar@gmail.com>
To: DIYbio <diybio@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [DIYbio] Why are PCR machines and biotech equipment in general so expensive
How do the economics work out and why have we not seen bigger companies bring down the process in the advent of open source equipment as well as new startups building low-cost equipment?

 

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