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.

  • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    22 hours ago

    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!

    • snoons@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      6·
      22 hours ago

      :O that’s friggin amazing! Suddenly all my micro labs at uni are now silly.

      • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        22 hours ago

        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!