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See also [[Project:Making our own reagents]] | See also [[Project:Making our own reagents]] | ||
== Suppliers == | |||
* [http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/united-kingdom.html Sigma-Aldrich] - Good for custom primers | |||
* [http://www.coleparmer.co.uk/ Cole-Parmer] | |||
* [http://uk.farnell.com/ Farnell] | |||
* Chang bioscience - pipettes | |||
* [http://www.nbsbio.co.uk/ NBSBio] - Good for ladders and cheap agarose (only low concentration) NB: Be sure to navigate to http://'''www.'''nbsbio.co.uk NOT http://nbsbio.co.uk, or their payment system doesn't work. Weird. Standard shipping cost is £15 | |||
* Web scientific - Taq and ladder | |||
* [http://www.neb.com New England Biolabs] They sell very cheap taq. We could also look at their restriction enzymes. However atm they won't sell to us as they only sell to universities or registered biolabs. See [https://lists.kentgeek.org/pipermail/lhs-biohacking/2012-August/000817.html this post] and [https://lists.kentgeek.org/pipermail/lhs-biohacking/2012-June/000591.html this] post. Once we have all our registrations for LBL sorted we could try again. | |||
* [http://www.thermoscientificbio.com/restriction-and-modifying-enzymes/restriction-enzymes Thermoscientific] - Recommended for good value restriction enzymes. Not tried yet. | |||
* [http://www.vwr.com VWR] - Big supplier of chemicals, glassware and various lab stuff. Sounds very positive about selling to the hackspace. | |||
* [http://www.invitrogen.com/site/us/en/home.html Invitrogen] We failed their due diligence check. See post [https://lists.kentgeek.org/pipermail/lhs-biohacking/2011-September/000103.html here] and [https://lists.kentgeek.org/pipermail/lhs-biohacking/2011-September/000109.html here]. They have cheap TBE. | |||
* [http://eu.idtdna.com/site?c=UK IDT] - possible source for primers. Haven't tried them yet. | |||
* [http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/cheaplabstuff/ cheaplabstuff] (ebay) - Cheap 1.5ml and 15ml tubes in small quantities. Also pasteur pipettes. | |||
* [http://stores.ebay.co.uk/microsupplies microsupplies] (ebay) - Cheap 5-200ul and 100-1000ul tips by the 1000 | |||
* [http://www.bioscience.co.uk/home Cambridge Bioscience] - Not yet used, may supply GelRed or GelGreen (enquiry by Bene) | |||
Also see general hackspace [[suppliers]] page. | |||
[[Category:Biohacking]] | [[Category:Biohacking]] | ||
