What I do specifically is called wastewater based epidemiology. While the term has been around for a few decades, it really took off in concordance with COVID. Previous PCR techniques like qPCR are heavily inhibited by co-elutors from wastewater extract. We use digital PCR which is way more resistant to inhibition due to the partitioning. We are using cutting edge technology and our R&D dept is constantly looking into additional targets we can test for. As a company we also do some non-pcr-based wastewater testing (drugs of abuse by LC/MS is a big one).

Additionally we also do next gen sequencing to track the COVID variants in communities.

Exo- or endo-nuclease!

I manage an infectious disease monitoring lab in industry. Pay’s a whole lot better out here, and my team is amazing and self-driven so I can do minimal people managing.

Biohazard might as well be a metroidvania.

His response to the 2018 Thai Cave rescue is what made me realize how big of a shit stain on society he is.

At least they aren’t using Access???

This is the way. Just make sure to disable the YouTube app on your phone so links people send you don’t open in the app.

Split fiction looks super cool!

Dual wielding big hippos is my most favorite thing to do in gunfire reborn.

I legitimately use this line in one of my scripts because range.find returns an error of the value is not found. The use case is taking a 2d matrix saved as an array, with data collected from multiple excel tabs and rearranging it for a CSV upload into Salesforce. The initial array contains values that the rest of the data does not have, so when I search for a non existent value, I can skip the error.

Of course vba COULD just implement try/catch statements and that’d be so much cleaner, but alas.

Nintendo Dom

I’d forgotten about the Sega Saturn. My only Sega console was the Genesis.

I’m sure it was considered, but a console nicknamed SS was probably ruled out.

I’ve been using smart tube on my fireTV for about 6 months now and it’s amazing. No ads, so many playback options that YouTube doesn’t offer, built in sponsor block is a godsend.

The bases and hot blocks are interchangable with that series. We recently upgraded to the Opus but our previous CFX96 had the T1000 touch base.

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.

No game will ever have a better soundtrack than Halo 3

No need to body shame. Call people out on their attitude not their given biology.

Cell signalling pathways was the worst part of microbial genetics for me. Luckily I don’t have to deal with that anymore as my day to day is digital PCR and NGS.

Someone’s probably already coined the term, but I’m going to call it LLM inbreeding.