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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 77 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Aren't these things the other 5% of biochemistry?

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Or not to grow.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago
[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] BluesF@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Shit yeah. Where do computer scientists sign up?

[-] BluesF@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I mean I get to do it as a chemist, so hell yeah Nye!

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

95% of all science work lets be real here

[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

One of the jobs AI is going to replace

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] DudeBro@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years 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

[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I am meaning more than just the piping as AI is starting to observe now too. Read here the other day that an AI is researching new materials unassisted in a lab.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Where is the hand-crank centrifuge?

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You do get to wear a cool lab coat though.

[-] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

i majored in pipetting ๐Ÿ’€

this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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