A Gnu Noicer Lounge...

[Quarterquack]

Actually to date I've only worked with mice, and as we all know they don't matter because they're not cute and cuddly

A woman who can handle mice on her own?

So seriously, what are you doing? Enzyme insertions? Disease inductions? Genetic characterization?

[Squeamous]

A woman who can handle mice on her own?

So seriously, what are you doing? Enzyme insertions? Disease inductions? Genetic characterization?

Well I tried doing it while standing on a chair, holding my skirts and clutching a rolling pin but my boss said I was upsetting the other scientists.

I work in a service lab, so the purpose varies. It can range through promotor bashing (to work out how genes are regulated by other genes), or following the expression of genes, creating more human-like mouse models for disease, or studying gene function by knocking them out. I'm a technician so I do the hocus pocus part to make it all come together, but the scientists give me their stem cells or DNA vectors already engineered. I also introduce new techniques. I recently got to go to Miami to present a protocol I devised for vitrification of mouse ooctyes and preimplantation stage embryos, and I'm currently in the later stages of introducing Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) as a service my section provides - it's a form of assisted reproduction, which is really useful for our scientists who are studying sex determination and keep making mice with funky sperm that don't work.

[mjmacky]

creating more human-like mouse models for disease

Something like this?

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[mjmacky]

It was in London when I went. I can't do clubbing anymore either. A mate dragged me out to a techno club last weekend. It was their birthday, so I thought I'd give it a go. I looked for the chill-out room, but couldn't find it. I soon fell asleep. When I woke up, it was 5 am, and there was hideous techno banging all around me. I immediately left. I hate techno, but I can sleep thro' most things. It's my self-defence mechanism.

I leave for work at 6:30 am, 6 days a week, so by 9 pm, I'm cream crackered.

Not to be a bastard or anything, but that was a really boring story.

[Squeamous]

creating more human-like mouse models for disease

Something like this?

Yes, but without the pants.

Not to be a bastard or anything, but that was a really boring story.

That's what I thought. Old cunt stories NFTW.

[manker]

I'd have gone with FTL, but I'm badass.

[manker]

Looks awesome but in Wales it's customary to wait til you're at least 15 to get wasted on psychedelics in nightclubs.

We're refined as fuck.




..i say it looks awesome but I don't really like nightclubs when I go now and haven't for ages

It was in London when I went. I can't do clubbing anymore either. A mate dragged me out to a techno club last weekend. It was their birthday, so I thought I'd give it a go. I looked for the chill-out room, but couldn't find it. I soon fell asleep. When I woke up, it was 5 am, and there was hideous techno banging all around me. I immediately left. I hate techno, but I can sleep thro' most things. It's my self-defence mechanism.

I leave for work at 6:30 am, 6 days a week, so by 9 pm, I'm cream crackered.

Fuck 'em all, ben. Your story both intrigued and gripped me like a dual ridged, vibrating, anal emulating fleshlight. With lights.

In other news; I sympathise, work must have come as quite a shock to you after the unemployable doletard decade.

[Something Else]

I'd forgotten about that. It was an easy life running my own business back then. Too easy.

[megabyteme]

But I have a little part time job on the side creating transgenic animals at the leading medical research facility in the UK.

I can safely speak for all animals that they'd really prefer if you didn't do that.

Leave your personal biases out of this, Idol. Those mice are fully aware of the risks. They have to sign all kinds of waivers, and pass multiple levels of psychological screenings before they get to that level.

Personally, as an American, it makes me feel proud that our scientists are able to help all of the little boy mice who were born with female genitalia the opportunity to be who the really were meant to be. I'm actually tearing up a bit here just thinking about it...

[Squeamous]

I can safely speak for all animals that they'd really prefer if you didn't do that.

Leave your personal biases out of this, Idol. Those mice are fully aware of the risks. They have to sign all kinds of waivers, and pass multiple levels of psychological screenings before they get to that level.

Personally, as an American, it makes me feel proud that our scientists are able to help all of the little boy mice who were born with female genitalia the opportunity to be who the really were meant to be. I'm actually tearing up a bit here just thinking about it...

I'm not really sure you understand, but it's alright, you should probably go back to playing with fanbelts and carburetors or whatever it is you men do when you're not wanking and getting under our feet