Hi.
-- In case you are not aware, many manufacturers in India often make equipment cheap for the educational institutions offering biotechnology course( you know how they have mushroomed all over, in the last decade!). So option 3 is very much viable if you talk to them. Centrifuges ( Don't think Remi is world class, tho' and their service support was awful in the past), PCR machines, bioreactors etc. might be easy to come by.
Regards
Murali
On 13 January 2016 at 16:17, Reshma Bhatnagar <rebhatnagar@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bhavna,--
Depends on what exactly you want to do. First make a list of instruments that you would need and those that you would like (but are not essential). Check out:
1. Ebay/2nd Hand - but you'll probably get most of what you need only in the US/International stores, so check if your college/institute is planning to get rid of their old equipment/upgrade.
2. Build it yourself - PCRs and Centrifuges are easy to build and instructions abound. Try instructables.com
3. Buy them new - Happily in India, many instruments (local brands) are available cheap. Remi builds world class centrifuges at a fraction of Eppendorf's cost. Balances are cheap as well, but depend on accuracy and least count. Same is true for micropipettes. An Indian brand can cost 1/10th of Gilson. Also check out alibaba and aliexpress. Chinese stuff is often very cheap. Find bargains.
4. Jugaad (or the more fashionable term, hack) - Aren't you Indian? Especially relevant for ultra pure water. We distill aquaguard water. :-P
Our open space in Navi Mumbai used strategies 2, 3 and 4 for the most part. You can visit us on http://sarbilabs.com
Feel free to contact me.
Regards,
Reshma
On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 3:40:45 PM UTC+5:30, BHAVNA PANDYA wrote:Hello Everyone,Myself Bhavna Pandya, Innovation catalyst at RiiDL (Reseach Innovation Incubation Design labs) (www.riidl.org), India. I have done Masters in Microbiology, few weeks back I heard a concept of DIY bio and I am totally impressed with this concept, so I am looking forward to start a DIY bio lab here. I have a space of 1200 sq ft but no instruments, so please tell me how to start with it ? and this concept is very new here, so any opinion or suggestions how to build a community for the same ?eagerly waiting for the replythank you,
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