Labrats of NSG
Kreitzmoorland
23-08-2008, 21:37
Well, it's Saturday afternoon, and here I am at the lab, doing DNA extractions. To be exact, two 96-well format plates using the home-made version of the Qiagen kit. 3 dollar reaction cost down to 50 cents, booyah. This is a thread to share life at the lab.
For instance, this month I realized that when you buy the official version of an extraction or purification kit form Qiagen, what they give you in the bottle that they call "buffer AW" (for the first wash) is literally just water. They make you add the ethanol yourself. And scientists are supposed to be smart.
I must go get my stuff from the centrifuge right now.
Anyone else wear a tie-died lab coat?
Western Mercenary Unio
23-08-2008, 22:44
no but i wanna be either an astrophysicist or a astronomer
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Kreitzmoorland
23-08-2008, 23:12
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Man, there's so much stuff from xkcd that I need.
Man, there's so much stuff from xkcd that I need.
xkcd rules. It's that simple :wink:
The Infinite Dunes
23-08-2008, 23:38
I remember when people used to allow me into labs. I seem to remember I was either busy making my sink look like a prop out of a budget sci-fi film with liquid nitrogen; or I was busy smelling ever chemical in sight. Which either gave me a headache, got me high or made my nose churn out half my body weight in mucus. I just never got the whole concept of wafting the smell away from the tube to under your nose -- for me it was use it like a nasal inhaler or nothing.
Lunatic Goofballs
24-08-2008, 00:14
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*steals*
Wilgrove
24-08-2008, 00:21
Does working in a gross anatomy lab count? I get to play with dead bodies! :D
Lunatic Goofballs
24-08-2008, 00:23
Does working in a gross anatomy lab count? I get to play with dead bodies! :D
Pfft! I can do that anytime I want!
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On second thought, forget I said that. :p
Wilgrove
24-08-2008, 00:28
Pfft! I can do that anytime I want!
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On second thought, forget I said that. :p
Please tell me you don't use the corpse as puppets.... :p
Lunatic Goofballs
24-08-2008, 00:30
Please tell me you don't use the corpse as puppets.... :p
Okay. Mum's the word. ;)
Wilgrove
24-08-2008, 00:32
Okay. Mum's the word. ;)
I can actually see you pulling a "Weekend with Bernie" kind of deal.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
24-08-2008, 00:42
You're not a real scientist until at least one person is seeking revenge on you for their horrible disfigurement/insanity/dead family. Until then, you're just a poseur in a lab coat.
Lunatic Goofballs
24-08-2008, 00:49
You're not a real scientist until at least one person is seeking revenge on you for their horrible disfigurement/insanity/dead family. Until then, you're just a poseur in a lab coat.
Yay! I'm a real scientist!