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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Duh that is old tech, nowadays you enlarge the DNA to human size so you can easily pluck out individual nucleotides with regular tweezers.

[-] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago
[-] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

the generated clankslops out of those stock photos will be hillariousy worse.

[-] sym@piefed.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 day ago

The worst part is when you wobble slightly and insert the strand of DNA in the wrong place, so instead of curing the patient's genetic disease they immediately sprout horns.

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago

One might say you make your patients horny.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

That sound badass, where do I sign up?

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Sorry, I accidentally spliced in the wrong bit of DNA for you; now you have 2 anuses coming out of your palms, and you can't control them, like birds.

[-] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 51 points 1 day ago

And when she says that, she doesn't mean finding a supplier. Once you put the tweezers down, you'll never find them again

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

You got through a doctoral program in evolutionary biology without knowing how to spell tweezers?

. . .

Okay.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Have you met people this educated in fields this specialized? They ain't got time, or room in their brain, to care about spelling.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Yeahbut . . .”tweasers”? C’mon man. Just spell the band and put a T in front.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

It's too egregious, it has to be ragebait. And you know what, it worked

[-] markz@suppo.fi 21 points 1 day ago

The last image: my dna hurts

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

Looks like it's normal size tweezers, but vastly enlarged DNA.

[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Does CRISPR count as tweasers?

[-] notsure@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago

...i find this funny...on so MANY lavels...

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Doctors: I'm helping

You're creating strand breaks is what you're doing.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

I'm sure they also spend a lot of time staring face to face with a DNA strand too

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You're telling me these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers

don't look like traditional tweezers except really small?

[-] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I think she means "as an evolutionary biologist: you have no idea ...". Rather than "as an evolutionary biologist, you have no idea ...".

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Well, I did indeed have no idea I was an evolutionary biologist...

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