Setting up a lab at hom

["Hansen Lab", not U.H.]

        Reply to:   RE>>Setting up a lab at home

And what about the regulations (OSHA, EPA, NRC--if you do any work with
radioactivity)? ETC!
Peggy

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Date: 8/28/95 12:46 PM
To: Hansen Lab(not U.H.)
From: martin LEACH
In one word

EXPENSIVE

the reagents cost a bomb!

Martin

Susan Jane Hogarth (sjhogart) wrote:
: Hello,

: I'm considering setting up a basic "molecular biology" laboratory in my
home. I
: hope to design/build much of the equipment, and to purchase some. This is
not
: as far-fetched as it may seem (I hope!) as my mate is a
: machinist/programmer/designer who hopes to use my setup to work on his
: equipment designs. My vision is of a place where, free from having to
justify
: work financially, I can play around with "hobby projects". I see this home
lab
: as a place to do "preliminary experiments" (=low reps), which can (if
: promising) be imported into the academic lab.

: Does anyone think this is feasible in this day and age? Any advice? Will
: experiments produced outside of an "institute" be publishable? I'd like some
: feedback on this idea. 

: Of course the Big Question is: Why would anyone want to take LABwork HOME? 
: Must just be crazy, I guess ;-)
: -- 
: Susan Jane Hogarth
: sjhogart at unity.ncsu.edu


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