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
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.
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.
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.
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.
This used to be IT in the early 2000s
Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)
Yeah, I came here to air my hypothesis that lab hardware trends lag behind consumer computers by about 25-30 years.
So it’s almost time for teal, orange et other fun colors, mixed with translucent plastic lab équipement?
I’m waiting for it come back in to style. I’ve pitched getting beige racks with this on the side https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design)
There is also this particular tone of light brownish green which is on so many industrial tools like drill presses, table top saws and so on. I kinda dig it
Oh yes, I was using a 3.5" floppy disk drive with a USB connector in 2007 to kick off imaging on desktop machines as no one could get the ghost boot server working.
