Comment on where the magic happens owo

interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What do they do?

  source

  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

    source

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wow, I know some of those words.

      source

      • Rednax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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 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.

        source
    • runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Top left is the CFX96/384, which is also a qPCR instrument.

      Bottom left is the 3500 Genetic Analyzer, as someone identified. It’s used for sanger sequencing I believe. My last lab had one but I was never trained on it.

      source

      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I thought it was just their T100, the CFX96s I’ve used don’t have the touchscreen but yeah the bigger “lid” does look like for the CFX.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      PCR, aka pipette, cry, repeat

      source
    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This guy sciences.

      Also username checks out.

      source
    • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know nothing about this kind of lab equipment but Google says the bottom left device is a human DNA sequencer, ABI model 3500.

      source
    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you, they sound really specialized!

      source
  • interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

    source

    • Rolder@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Getting the magic back to the magic analysis database got it

      source