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Ad card for Grove with a abstract, a bio, and a picture of danwchan that reads:

The tools of biotech are increasingly accessible both in terms of price and availability, but organizations that work to make lab infrastructure accessible either charge fees commensurate with initial investment or are exceedingly rare.

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Biotech Without Borders is a community of volunteers that collectively maintains lab facilities in NYC to tinker with biotech tools and an online community for mutual learning and to find collaborators. We see our activities as mutual aid creating a low-cost entry point into biotech. Members come from diverse backgrounds and must cooperate to ensure the lab is usable for all, in doing so we form a community that supports each other’s work.

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Daniel Chan is a formally trained bench scientist who left academia to labour towards a decentralized, compassionate and creative system of DIYbio. He was a Global Community Biosummit Fellow in 2021. He is the President and a member of Biotech Without Borders, a nonprofit community biology lab in NYC.

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