I don't know, its missing putting your sample in a big grey machine and then getting a number from the big grey machine.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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Don't forget putting your samples in the incubator and waiting overnight for cells to grow.
Aren't these things the other 5% of biochemistry?
thats more microbiology.
Protein expression falls under biochemistry, and you need to grow cells for that.
Look I spoke to Bill Nye and he said all scientists can grow cells sometimes, as a treat.
Shit yeah. Where do computer scientists sign up?
Bioinformatics is the last door at the end of the hall. Be warned, we put it down there for a reason.
I mean I get to do it as a chemist, so hell yeah Nye!
Or not to grow.
95% of all science work lets be real here
Don't they have tools to do 100 at once, and machines to do 10,000 at once?
Yeah, but those are for scaled up processes. If you're doing basic research, most of the time you'll want to do it yourself. Plus, those bots are very expensive.
Where is the hand-crank centrifuge?
You do get to wear a cool lab coat though.
i majored in pipetting 💀
One of the jobs AI is going to replace
They already make machines to do repetitive pipetting, it's just that humans are cheaper and more widely usable.
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