/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8125034
>work as a lab tech
>literally am a slave in a white coat
>every fucking person always comes up to me asking the dumbest shit:
>so anon you're like a doctor my piss was like orange the other day and...
>anon my poop was like straight black does that mean...
>anon this mole, which I've had for 9 years, itched one time does that mean I have cancer
>lol dude western medicine is so stupid herbs and shit are the way to go

>>8024650
PCR/ SANGER SEQUENCING NIGGA

I worked as a genetic analyst for a year. Essential you add a few reagents to your sample such as big dye and primers. Then you hand it off to a machine and the machine gives you a read out of placements. Of course you can run into problems because of how C and G bond and the purity of your substance.

>why can't we just change our genes however we like
Analyzing genes takes fucking forever. Like it costs very little sequence but figuring out what they actually do is pretty difficult. One funny out come of the genomic revolution is that we can now sequence an entire genome for less than a thousand but the analysis could cost well over a million. I've always explained it as imagine DNA as computer code. Sure it's easy to "see" the code but if you were to try to figure out what it does without any documentation it'd be pretty rough.

Also you can't just go in willy nilly and change genes. Usually any sort of research in this area is super amounts of trail and error and it takes years to find a gene that you're looking for.