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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Each one of these costs more than the building itself

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I do lab planning for a living and sometimes I like to play "How Many Houses Could This Instrument Buy?" with my coworkers. Usually it's something along the lines of 0.1 to 1 houses, but every once in a while we do a process development lab for some biotech firm, and they want to spring for one of those Satorious automated bioreactors. Those things cost "a whole block's worth of nice houses in a mid-major metro" money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So like $10 million dollars?

Nowadays this exercise does more to show how absurd housing prices are than it shows about instrument prices.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except thermocyclers, literally available on aliexpress these days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can get almost every piece of lab equipment on Ali. Wether or not you'll actually get one, or if it does what you want is another matter though.