Instruments can make our lives easier in the lab. Place your samples inside an instrument and let it do all the work—isolating nucleic acids or reading and analyzing a multiwell plate—while you walk away to read a new research paper or prepare for the next step in your experiment. However, with the array of machines now available to scientists worldwide, some confusion may result in the laboratory. Has this ever happened to you?
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Thank a Tech or Assistant
Today’s #FridayFeeling is one of gratitude for all of those people who do the things that make our lives easier: lab techs, work-study students, undergraduate assistants. They put up with our requests and changes of mind and help keep our laboratory glassware clean, solutions sterile and experiments running. Do you have someone who helps you keep your experiments up and running?
Friday Cartoon Fun: Is It Drawn or Is It Real?
I always enjoy Ed Himelblau’s cartoons, but one that makes me chuckle every time I see it is the following:
I am sure our readers that enjoy coffee can empathize.
Recently, our Swiss branch had fun with a number of the cartoons from our Cartoon Lab archive and recreated the cartoon in real life:
What do you think?
Friday Cartoon Post: Do You See the Assays Glowing?
As a tribute to the fireflies lighting up the night during July evenings in Wisconsin and the reporter gene assays they inspire, I wanted to share a special Ed Himelblau cartoon:
