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Top right is a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) machine, used for finding bits of dna in a sample. You might recognize PCR gels from articles about dna stuff.
Bottom right is flow cytometry. Lookin at cells with frickin’ laser beams.
Top left is another pcr machine maybe? frfr
Bottom left is obviously a pizza oven. It’s a capillary electrophorisisiser. Another way to find bits of DNA in a sample ig.
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The box where the magic actually happens is almost always black and kept in the corridor outside the labs.
Definitely nostalgic for the time PCs were beige rn
Yeah it’s ugly af, but back then the machines fucking did what you told them
I thk you just need some linux (and stern words), some beige powder coat and heat.
Same here! I actually really miss beige PCs where the operating system was simple and it wasn’t trying to do a bunch of bullshit behind your back, it was just sitting there waiting for you to use it!
I mean, you could just install linux on your pc and your machine would do what you told it.
I did and it helps a lot, but it’s not true for smartphones (i.e. a lot of people’s main computing device) or even game consoles. Enshittification is everywhere and I feel like it gets harder and harder to avoid, especially when you consider laws that demand that you identify yourself with your personal ID to use social media or porn sites or want to install government spyware (e.g. EU’s chat control or what China is doing in general) on your devices.
Hey now, sometimes we have blue boxes where magic happens.
My favourite magic box is the MALDI. Matrix Assisted Lazer Desorption Ionizer. You mix matrix with bacteria from culture on a slide. The machine fires a lazer at the slide and breaks it into ions (charged particles). They’re sucked up into a tube that measures mass/charge ratio by seeing how long it takes those particles to travel down a tube before they hit a detector (its mass spectrometry/time of flight). The signal it makes generates a fingerprint that is compared to a database… and it tells you exactly what bacteria you’ve isolated based on those fingerprints! Its the greatest invention known to man!
:O that’s friggin amazing! Suddenly all my micro labs at uni are now silly.
Thats how I feel haha! I went to school for med lab so they teach us all about fun toys for histo, micro, heme, chem, and transfusion. Theres some really cool stuff out there!
It’s Bio- ✨ Rad ✨
Oh come on! At least slap a lightening bolt or shooting star sticker on it!
The more I learn about biochemistry, the less it seems like black magic fuckery and more like a middle aged bloke with an angle grinder and a welder going at molecules until they look kinda right. NileRed’s rubber glove hot sauce is partly to blame.
Welp. I’m off to paint my bedroom beige to make the magic happen!
Careful, you might summon laser beams! D:
No worries - I’ve got disco balls mounted everywhere to reflect those all around to dissuade my vict… er… companions from leaving.
Do you also have my favorite, the machine that makes “ping” ?
The default sound effect on an Apple Computer Power Mac? It was also a beige box where the magic happened.
