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0 pointsanderspitman4y ago0 comments

I work in a dry lab but I'm pretty sure you need a lot of expensive chemicals to actually make one of these work, yeah?

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yup. that’s the business model for Illumina. it’s very much akin to video game consoles. Illumina might take a hit on selling the machine but makes it up in selling you proprietary reagents.

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0 pointsanderspitman4y ago0 comments

I work in a dry lab but I'm pretty sure you need a lot of expensive chemicals to actually make one of these work, yeah?

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mylons4y ago

yup. that’s the business model for Illumina. it’s very much akin to video game consoles. Illumina might take a hit on selling the machine but makes it up in selling you proprietary reagents.

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