Four Thieves Vinegar Collective – Harm Reduction for the Living
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Right to Repair –for Your Body. The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to bringing access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have them. Get the Goods, Get Started. Microlab Suite The MicroLab is a DIY automated chemical reactor that you can assemble with commonly available…

these people have created a diy lab reactor you can synthesise medicines with, but I can’t find how to make it anywhere. can anyone find out, or share from their own knowledge?

EDIT: this is a lab reactor for organic chemistry, not a bioreactor with bacteria

  • silence7
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’d be really really hesitant to DIY something like this. Chemistry tends to involve a lot of things you can accidentally poison yourself with. Without a team holding organic chemistry and pharmacology degrees, as well as the time and money to verify that each step did exactly what was expected, you’re reasonably likely to hit a poisonous pitfall you didn’t know about.

    • hazeebabee
      3·
      1 year ago

      That’s true, I’d be hesitant to be one of the beta testers too – though I think the goal of a machine like this would be to allow people at home to synthesize already known medicines using well tested methods. So there would be a dedicated team of professionals creating the instructions that the machine follows. More like printing a book than trying to write your own.

    • meyotch
      3·
      1 year ago

      Right, just go to a testosterone replacement therapy forum and look at the general confusion about very basics like figuring out weight-dependent dosages. I know it’s cool to poo poo experts, but if you can’t calculate a dilution series, you are likely to kill yourself.