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Yes biologists use tiny tiny tweezers to change DNA (gregtech.eu)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] otter 78 points 1 week ago

This is why the quantum expander device is helpful

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

WTF are "tweasers"??? Apparently they're so small that an alternate spelling was needed 🀣

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Quantum tweezers change text based on observation

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Twæsers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Love it! Mai brain!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

owo tweasews

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's not called "tweaser", it's "crispr"

[–] Nomecks 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey baby, are you DNA helicase, because I wanna unzip your genes 😏

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't that be "are you DNA helicase, because I want you to unzip my genes?"

If the other person is the enzyme, then they are the unzipper.

[–] Nomecks 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I butchered it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No no, that's a different enzyme to cut your DNA!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Exo- or endo-nuclease!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey bebe, are you polyamerous, because I wanna split you between two canonical splice sites 😏

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's like how computer scientists just stick scree drivers or soldering irons into tower pcs all day.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Like this:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

The tweezers are hard but why does no one talk about gluing the strands back together? How many students drop out of graduate school because their double helix looks like a ladder? It's so hard!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

This reminds me of the ASMR video I watched where this person removed my cranial nerves for cleaning and I was so immersed that I was kind of weirded out and upset by their sudden theft.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Genetic aestheticians.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/elec_stock/

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wow, I don't think a single one of those people even know what a soldering iron is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I like this one:

The Solderer

When a retired assassin repairs a personal computer belonging to the daughter of the President of the United States, something, something, a lot of kicking and grunting. Starring Jason Statham

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The guy taking a drill to the motherboard got a good chuckle out of me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You losers are still using mechanical tweezers? I upgraded to optical tweezers long ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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