we're doing peer reviews of each others' papers for a class and I fear I may be reviewer 2

first first author ✅️

ur telling me I tried 3 polymerases, 3 template concentrations, 4 primer combinations, 2 annealing temps, linearizing the plasmid template, and multiple minipreps, just to find out all i needed to do was order new primers because the first order was botched?

my high school (large, public school in New Jersey) did fetal pigs for honors bio, not sure what they did for regular bio. gen anatomy, human phys, and marine bio electives had their own set of dissections.

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does anyone know if eurofins *actually* requires these concentrations for sanger sequencing? seems awfully high considering genewiz told me 3 ng/uL for a product of 1500bp. unfortunately we can't make contact with genewiz

google hit result for protist-- shows images of fruits and vegetables as "representative species"

*googles protist*

🥔🍉🍍🍅

*closes google*

we got the cam thrash bump 🫡

me: I finally got something to work

katelyn: I feel like you say that twice a year

a laminated piece of paper that says "New Species Coming Soon!" with four question marks. the word "Species" has been crossed out and "genus" has been written above it

I saved this image from twitter two years ago in anticipation and now I can thankfully say, for my first post on this app, paper accepted!