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It's how the magic happens (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

You do get to wear a cool lab coat though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Where is the hand-crank centrifuge?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

i majored in pipetting 💀

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One of the jobs AI is going to replace

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They already make machines to do repetitive pipetting, it's just that humans are cheaper and more widely usable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Our lab's auto pipetter is broken about 60% of the time, most days we just shut it off and reroute specimens to the workbenches to do it by hand because it's faster than attempting to fix it or call customer service. Maybe once the good-for-nothing customer service repair phone line is replaced by AI it will actually function and be worth the half a million dollars we spent on this stupid machine, lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, its missing putting your sample in a big grey machine and then getting a number from the big grey machine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget putting your samples in the incubator and waiting overnight for cells to grow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

thats more microbiology.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Protein expression falls under biochemistry, and you need to grow cells for that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Look I spoke to Bill Nye and he said all scientists can grow cells sometimes, as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shit yeah. Where do computer scientists sign up?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Bioinformatics is the last door at the end of the hall. Be warned, we put it down there for a reason.