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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (13 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

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