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I am still waiting for silicon valley to 'disrupt' research. Places like

https://www.the-odin.com/

look scary at first blush. But if you've ever worked in a molecular biology lab, you know how competition, FOMO, and other pressures force shortcuts that should never be taken. In addition, the high traffic and 'density' of 'dangerous' agents and reagents makes errors exponentially more likely. These places are also high profile and as such targets for espionage as well as 'other' events (rhymes with error-ist and starts with a 't') .The resulting irony is that professional mol bio labs might be less safe for the workers and the environment than someone's basement. A contained low profile workplace is safer based on epidemiological arguments. An 'error' there is much more likely to result in a failed experiment than a disaster.



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