I wanna be a biopunk!

[Feck]

I'll by everything on Genes last list and colony counter (yes, I may be able to make them, but they look soooooo cool!). Now the big question is where from. I see only one good lab equipment supplier in my country....hmm....and you have to do it by phone. Darn it. Wish we had a store for that sorta shit.

Dory you have too much money !

living with parents can have advantages

Can I suggest spending some money on books first ?

[GenesForLife]

Colony counters, PCR machines FFS you are so spoilt nowadays tell me there is still some manual skill left in filling the wells in electrophoresis gels ?or is that done by machine also

I used a Quebec colony counter mate, manual work, lots of it, haven't done PCR and the three times I've done electrophoresis I used the good old comb and micropippetors.

[Feck]

Colony counters, PCR machines FFS you are so spoilt nowadays tell me there is still some manual skill left in filling the wells in electrophoresis gels ?or is that done by machine also

I used a Quebec colony counter mate, manual work, lots of it, haven't done PCR and the three times I've done electrophoresis I used the good old comb and micropippetors.

Good

[GenesForLife]

Colony counters, PCR machines FFS you are so spoilt nowadays tell me there is still some manual skill left in filling the wells in electrophoresis gels ?or is that done by machine also

I used a Quebec colony counter mate, manual work, lots of it, haven't done PCR and the three times I've done electrophoresis I used the good old comb and micropippetors.

Good

For most of my lab experiments even micropipettes weren't available, had to use those good old glass pipettes in combination with oral suction, even if that is a strict safety no-no.

[Feck]

Colony counters, PCR machines FFS you are so spoilt nowadays tell me there is still some manual skill left in filling the wells in electrophoresis gels ?or is that done by machine also

I used a Quebec colony counter mate, manual work, lots of it, haven't done PCR and the three times I've done electrophoresis I used the good old comb and micropippetors.

Good

For most of my lab experiments even micropipettes weren't available, had to use those good old glass pipettes in combination with oral suction, even if that is a strict safety no-no.

It's ok for chemistry but filling gels you need one of these

[GenesForLife]

My work also included pipetting microbial dispersions by mouth, mate, E.coli, S.aureus being two potentially pathogenic ones...

[Dory]

I'll by everything on Genes last list and colony counter (yes, I may be able to make them, but they look soooooo cool!). Now the big question is where from. I see only one good lab equipment supplier in my country....hmm....and you have to do it by phone. Darn it. Wish we had a store for that sorta shit.

Dory you have too much money !

living with parents can have advantages

Can I suggest spending some money on books first ?

Done.

But seriously, how much biology can one read (so far 1200 pages, each page is a massive page) before wanting to taste a lab? (as you can see, I finished the first 4 books (the 2 books at the bottom are the ones I just started reading - General Chemistry). The rest of them I pretty much ran over.

[Dory]

I'll by everything on Genes last list and colony counter (yes, I may be able to make them, but they look soooooo cool!). Now the big question is where from. I see only one good lab equipment supplier in my country....hmm....and you have to do it by phone. Darn it. Wish we had a store for that sorta shit.

Dory you have too much money !

living with parents can have advantages

Can I suggest spending some money on books first ?

Done.

But seriously, how much biology can one read (so far 1200 pages, each page is a massive page) before wanting to taste a lab? (as you can see, I finished the first 4 books (the 2 books at the bottom are the ones I just started reading - General Chemistry). The rest of them I pretty much ran over.

[Feck]

Go to school and college it's a lot easier than trying to buy a lab !

[GenesForLife]

Go to school and college it's a lot easier than trying to buy a lab !

Or not, depending on what she wants to do with it... I own a microscope even if I was at Uni doing a lot of microbiology precisely for the reason that I couldn't see things that I wanted to, always.

[Dory]

Go to school and college it's a lot easier than trying to buy a lab !

Or not, depending on what she wants to do with it... I own a microscope even if I was at Uni doing a lot of microbiology precisely for the reason that I couldn't see things that I wanted to, always.

Nah, I want my "own" lab, where I could do whatever I fucking want without asking for permission, without coordinating ahead of time, and without losing job days. In fact, with buying my own equipment, I can do it in my job. And I can even eventually have my own "rentable lab"...oooh, a business model!

[Feck]

That's nice dear ,I want an aircraft carrier ,I shouldn't let a few simple facts like I can't pilot a ship that size and that the only fast jet i've flown is a microsoft one stop me, should I , in fact It's a business plan I could rent it to Cuba or North Korea.

In fact anyone that says that If I'm so keen maybe I should consider joining the navy is obviously not accounting for the fact that I havn't grown up yet !

[GenesForLife]

That's nice dear ,I want an aircraft carrier ,I shouldn't let a few simple facts like I can't pilot a ship that size and that the only fast jet i've flown is a microsoft one stop me, should I , in fact It's a business plan I could rent it to Cuba or North Korea.

In fact anyone that says that If I'm so keen maybe I should consider joining the navy is obviously not accounting for the fact that I havn't grown up yet !

hehe, but since when did a small scale lab begin to equate to an aircraft carrier?

[Dory]

That's nice dear ,I want an aircraft carrier ,I shouldn't let a few simple facts like I can't pilot a ship that size and that the only fast jet i've flown is a microsoft one stop me, should I , in fact It's a business plan I could rent it to Cuba or North Korea.

In fact anyone that says that If I'm so keen maybe I should consider joining the navy is obviously not accounting for the fact that I havn't grown up yet !

Heh. What's so hard in using a microscope, petri-dishes, staining, figuring out how culture counters work (which is basically a machine to just...count cultures)...the other stuff aren't as complicated, either. I'm not out there to do research with room-size incubators, just have cool basic science tools.

[Dory]

That's nice dear ,I want an aircraft carrier ,I shouldn't let a few simple facts like I can't pilot a ship that size and that the only fast jet i've flown is a microsoft one stop me, should I , in fact It's a business plan I could rent it to Cuba or North Korea.

In fact anyone that says that If I'm so keen maybe I should consider joining the navy is obviously not accounting for the fact that I havn't grown up yet !

hehe, but since when did a small scale lab begin to equate to an aircraft carrier?

Exactly.