How much would it cost to build my own lab?

[Bizmark13]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

[Bitcoin Magazine]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

why can't we just legalize meth, so every time i hear the word lab i don't think of meth anymore

[DiamondZ]

The cost will depend on how much equipment you sill need.No one here will be able to tell you the exact cost.You better start calculating yourself. 

[Qsquegg]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

why can't we just legalize meth, so every time i hear the word lab i don't think of meth anymore

haha, guys what have you been smoking? lab isn't just for meth, he can cook cocaine and LSD too! 

[FUR11]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

Nice try, Cap'n cook. Or should I rather just say... Jesse Pinkman?
But seriously is it so far fetched to assume, you're just about to cook something illegal in there? Or you're a fed trying to catch people giving you advice on how to build a lab. Nah, drugs are a bad thing!

[Kluge]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

I've done research in biochemistry, and PCR's are quite expensive and large--but there are places online where you can find used equipment. I have a small centrifuge, probably not the kind you're looking for though. I have some basic stuff like test tubes, beakers, volumetric flasks, etc. I'm looking for some basic analytical equipment like a spec-20, FTIR and a sep funnel, etc. It's going to become a hobby for me since I've been out of the field for several years and our daughter is getting close to the right age to start learning about this stuff.

http://www.labx.com/

http://www.biosurplus.com/

--Amy (not Kluge)

[gangplankk]

why not just hire the person who already built a lab and negotiate a price point. lol.

[Bitcoin Magazine]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

why can't we just legalize meth, so every time i hear the word lab i don't think of meth anymore

haha, guys what have you been smoking? lab isn't just for meth, he can cook cocaine and LSD too! 

or 5-MeO-DIPT

[Nobitcoin]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

Are you producing bio weapons or genetic ones?

[bluefirecorp]

It really depends. Your location plays a huge factor into everything. Some chemicals are rather difficult to get in the USA that are rather easy to get in the UK.

That sort of thing really comes into play in price wise.

[Fiftysven]

Y i agree your location is the most important factor for the price and whether u are even able to get the chemicals u need 

[bluefirecorp]

Y i agree your location is the most important factor for the price and whether u are even able to get the chemicals u need 

Chemistry is a lot of fun. Biochemistry is a bit more applied, and therefore less pure.

Chemistry is the most pure you can get and remain hands on (fuck you physics).

[Kluge]

Y i agree your location is the most important factor for the price and whether u are even able to get the chemicals u need 

Chemistry is a lot of fun. Biochemistry is a bit more applied, and therefore less pure.

Chemistry is the most pure you can get and remain hands on (fuck you physics).

Ha! You're awesome, and you obviously know the rivalry between physics and chemistry. Physics majors are akin to the philosophy majors--almost totally useless.

Biochemistry is fucking boring as shit, all that pipeting will just give you hand pain and a numb brain--I hated it. I specialized in analytical, taught myself microbiology and ended up being a process scientist for a while. I'm now trying to educate myself how to teach children, because we have a 3-yr old...chemistry is almost out the window, but she has read some of my chemistry books, and I'm trying to figure out how to teach it to her safely.

--Amy (not Kluge, don't blame him for what I say even though he gave me the link to this thread.)

[meadefreling]

Any figures given here would be mere speculations simply write up the amount of equipment you want and your  lab expenditures comes to light.

[Brewins]

I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing

Then you must go back to the start and think about what you want do, before you make your moves to get your stuffs. Otherwise you will probably get stuffs you don't need, and will lack stuffs you need in the middle of wharever you are doing. Waste of money, time and space.

Plust you should take a look in your laws, so you sure you won't be doing illegal things, or you discover your stuffs are illegal and you have to close your lab.

First question: do you want to work with human things, with animal things, with plants or with micro beings?

[keithandr1]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

why can't we just legalize meth, so every time i hear the word lab i don't think of meth anymore

haha, guys what have you been smoking? lab isn't just for meth, he can cook cocaine and LSD too! 

lol, right!

[Gleb Gamow]

Y i agree your location is the most important factor for the price and whether u are even able to get the chemicals u need 

Chemistry is a lot of fun. Biochemistry is a bit more applied, and therefore less pure.

Chemistry is the most pure you can get and remain hands on (fuck you physics).

Ha! You're awesome, and you obviously know the rivalry between physics and chemistry. Physics majors are akin to the philosophy majors--almost totally useless.

Biochemistry is fucking boring as shit, all that pipeting will just give you hand pain and a numb brain--I hated it. I specialized in analytical, taught myself microbiology and ended up being a process scientist for a while. I'm now trying to educate myself how to teach children, because we have a 3-yr old...chemistry is almost out the window, but she has read some of my chemistry books, and I'm trying to figure out how to teach it to her safely.

--Amy (not Kluge, don't blame him for what I say even though he gave me the link to this thread.)

I, too, wasn't fond of Chemistry, but aced it nonetheless due to the love of working with numbers/equations. Physics was much easier, acing that as well. Six years of math in high school, and I only missed one question, that being on the last test prior to graduation due to me opting to race through it sans checking any of my work to be the first to put the test on the teacher's desk, finally beating Cliff by ~30 seconds. When I got the test back the next day and saw that I missed one, I was shocked, but just by looking at the problem, then the answer, I immediately realized where and how I erred. I'm probably one of the few here that got a perfect 800 on the math section of the SAT. Note to self: Dig up my 1978 SAT scores.

I only wish I would have paid better attention in English class, but I guess it's good enough to attend Penn State like Joshua Zipkin did.

~Bruno Kucinskas

[b!z]

who is amy?

[Gumbork]

I'm interested in building a lab to house biochemistry experiments. I'm not sure exactly what experiments I'll be doing but I have a good understanding of biochemistry and genetics since I have a degree in the subject so knowledge-wise, I should be OK. I'll need a PCR machine, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, etc. Raw materials will also be needed and replenished at regular intervals.

What price range am I looking at here? Anyone else do research as a hobby here?

Few million, dont do it.

[Kluge]

who is amy?

Hacker, probably.