The DIY bio community definitely needs cheaper tools and reagents. Would anyone have interest in having some strains suitable for the easy expression and purification of restriction enzymes, polymerases, and other useful ones? The method in this paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369703X11000325 seems pretty well suited for this. Another potential money saver would be a publicly available set of plasmids easily digested into quality DNA ladders. $50 per tube of restriction enzyme and $1 per lane of commercial ladders are not individually huge costs, but making these easy for individual to produce for themselves might lessen the barriers to entry.
-Rob
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