Removing barriers to better research

Accelerating discoveries in NGS with scalable pricing, community-driven panels, and support for labs at every stage

The pace of life science research has always depended on a careful balance of curiosity, rigor, and resources. In recent months, budget pressure has made this balance harder to maintain. Across academia, biotech, and core facilities, researchers are facing tighter funding, delayed or reduced grants, and growing pressure to deliver results with fewer resources. As Chemical & Engineering News recently described the situation, “Researchers no longer know the rules of the game and have a sense that things can change at any time.” For many scientists, the challenge is no longer just designing the right experiment, but finding ways to keep research moving forward at all.

Against this backdrop, Daicel Arbor Biosciences remains driven to remove barriers to better research by supporting scientists not only with high-quality tools, but with pricing models and community-driven solutions that reflect today’s realities.

Supporting researchers in a challenging research climate

Funding uncertainty has real downstream effects, often requiring difficult trade-offs between cost and rigor. As Science News reported, commenting on the $2.3 billion unspent NIH funds from almost 2,500 grants that were frozen or terminated (as of November 2025):

“The ripple effects [are] likely to be felt throughout the scientific community for years to come.”

In the face of the tumultuous relationship between discovery and funding, Daicel Arbor Biosciences recognizes that cost savings could be the core of protecting the integrity of ongoing and emerging research programs. By focusing on scalable pricing and reliable designs, Daicel Arbor Biosciences aims to mitigate challenges and keep quality research within reach. The key: ensuring reproducibility to drive down costs and passing those cost reductions to consumers.

Proven, repeatable science through community-driven design

Reproducibility and repeatability are not only scientific ideals, but are practical necessities in a constrained research climate. Experiments built on proven designs reduce risk, save time, and minimize wasted resources.

Daicel Arbor Biosciences’ predesigned panels put this principle into action. These panels are developed and refined through repeated use across the research community and expert predesign, creating designs that are already validated in real-world conditions. For researchers, this means fewer unknowns when starting a new project and greater confidence that results can be reproduced and scaled. When science is easier to repeat, it is easier to build upon – and that benefits the entire research ecosystem.

Savings that scale science

While the cost of discovery and acquisition of funds threaten the disruption of progress, Daicel Arbor Biosciences continuously works to improve efficiencies and pass those benefits directly to researchers through savings on targeted NGS kits. By lowering pricing for reorders as well as offering volume-based pricing—which can yield savings of up to 20%—the company helps labs stretch their budgets without sacrificing quality. Importantly, even first-time customers benefit from reduced reorder pricing by leveraging  designs from established community panels that have been included in reduced pricing models. These savings represent a real opportunity for another experiment, another sample set, or another insight that might otherwise have been delayed.

Removing barriers together

In a challenging research climate, no single organization can solve every problem. But thoughtful choices—in design, pricing, and community engagement—can meaningfully lower barriers to discovery. By combining community-driven panels with scalable pricing and a clear commitment to researcher support, Daicel Arbor Biosciences is helping ensure that high-quality science remains accessible. When researchers are supported with tools that respect both their scientific and financial constraints, innovation does not stall – it accelerates.