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[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 55 points 3 weeks 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

[–] markz@suppo.fi 23 points 3 weeks ago

The last image: my dna hurts

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

. . .

Okay.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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 3 weeks ago

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

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] notsure@fedia.io 12 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Does CRISPR count as tweasers?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Doctors: I'm helping

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

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

don't look like traditional tweezers except really small?

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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