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    You’ll need a PhD to be allowed to push the “on” button though.
    And then go back to the office to write grant applications for a month.
    To buy the next beige box.

  • interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I fix software on these things! No one ever quite gets what I do for work, it’s nice to run across in the wild.

    I feel seen lol

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        Top left is a thermal cycler. Basically it heats and cools samples at a given rate. This is primarily used for generic PCR, and certain enzymatic reactions. Top right is the fancier version of this, it is for qPCR, so it can do the heating and cooling and has a laser/detector for the dye or probe that reacts to generating more dna with each PCR cycle so you can quantify approximately how much of the target DNA you had.

        Bottom right is a luminex. This uses detection of fluorophore signals to measure multiple analyates, usually different proteins.

        Idk what bottom left is.

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            Allow me to translate:

            Top left is a thermal cycler. Basically it heats and cools samples at a given rate. This is primarily used for magic. Top right is the fancier version of this, it is for qMagic, so it can do the heating and cooling and has a magic detector for magic components that reacts to magic happening so you can quantify approximately how much magic is going on in the beige box.

            Bottom right is a luminex. This uses detection of magic signals to measure magic.

            Bottom left is the beige box where magic happens.

      • interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Some kinda lab work, maybe blood chem or urinalysis. I should clarify that since I’m a software person I don’t even know what they do, really, I just fix it when they stop transmitting lab test results to the database.

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    This used to be IT in the early 2000s

    Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)

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      Yeah, I came here to air my hypothesis that lab hardware trends lag behind consumer computers by about 25-30 years.