Friday, March 6, 2009

Science Nerds


When I first started research as a graduate student in the 1980s, I was struck by the way that manufacturers of high-tech science lab gear marketed their products.  An attractive woman in a lab coat leaning against a high speed centrifuge seductively telling you how fast her machine can pull down your microsomes.  Seemed like they were selling beer.

Here is an ad pushing a machine that replicates DNA--a thermocycler that carries out a technique call Polyermase Chain Reaction (PCR), a key procedure in DNA fingerprinting.  

I have one in the lab....... but it has never done this.

Source: blog.wired.com/wiredscience/

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