Revision as of 14:33, 26 April 2014

Safety

This is fairly self explanatory, and is also specifically mentioned in the regulations. (I presume due to some fairly horrific accidents)

Unlabelled containers are a hazard, even if they are not hazardous.

It makes it difficult to keep the lab tidy if there are random concoctions cluttering the shelves.

Please label with the following;

and if you are going to be leaving something hazardous or plan to leave an experiment running for an extended duration, please mail the list.

The protocols we have got working in the Biohackspace:

The protocols we we would like to get working in the Biohackspace.

To create a page for a piece of lab equipment fill out this form and make sure you put "Biohacking" as the subcategory.

This site has a directory of service engineers for various biomedical/biochemical equipment:

The reagents we currently have stocked:

   link to shopping list G spreadsheet

Sigma-Aldrich - Good for custom primers
Cole-Parmer
Farnell
Chang bioscience - pipettes
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
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 this post and this post. Once we have all our registrations for LBL sorted we could try again.
Thermoscientific - Recommended for good value restriction enzymes. Not tried yet.
VWR - Big supplier of chemicals, glassware and various lab stuff. Sounds very positive about selling to the hackspace.
Invitrogen We failed their due diligence check. See post here and here. They have cheap TBE.
IDT - possible source for primers. Haven't tried them yet.
cheaplabstuff (ebay) - Cheap 1.5ml and 15ml tubes in small quantities. Also pasteur pipettes.
microsupplies (ebay) - Cheap 5-200ul and 100-1000ul tips by the 1000
Cambridge Bioscience - Not yet used, may supply GelRed or GelGreen (enquiry by Bene)

Also see general hackspace suppliers page.

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 = Safety =
+=== No mouth pipetting ===
+This is fairly self explanatory, and is also specifically mentioned in the regulations. (I presume due to some fairly horrific accidents)
+=== No unlabelled containers ===
+Unlabelled containers are a hazard, even if they are not hazardous.
+It makes it difficult to keep the lab tidy if there are random concoctions cluttering the shelves.
+Please label with the following;
+* nick
+* date
+* contents
+and if you are going to be leaving something hazardous or plan to leave an experiment running for an extended duration, please mail the list.
 = Protocols =