/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9385593
Cell biologist here, rotated in a genetics lab, worked for 2 years before that in human genetics and disease research at mass general/harvard.

Short answer, depends on the lab. I've worked with mice in my past lab (in boston) and current lab. We sacrifice ~10 mice a week; currently I work on neuron development, so I'm more interested in embryo cortical neurons.

Mutating things becomes boring and blah, whether you hate it at first (like most who enter the lab) or, uh, thinks it sounds fun. It just becomes part of the job.

Again, it depends on the lab. One of my good friends works in genetics/bioinformatics, and she literally works with human poop (works on gut flora genetics). Other friends work on C elegans, some on flies, others in plants (I mean mostly arabidopsis), others on just human cancer cell lines. Depends on whatever model system is used in whatever lab you are in.

>>9385631
that sounds like fuuuun
I learned about all of those model organisms in bio and plant bio
too bad I'm not a bio major
I think it's dope that we know literally everything about C. Elegans

>>9385638
Know their entire cell fate development and having their cells completely mapped is dope as fuck. Lets other do some really great neuro experiments; actually one of the cooler talks at ASCB this year was using C elegans as the model organism (actually the talk was boring as fuck because the guy wasn't that good of a presenter, but the science he was doing was pretty cool).

>>9385631
>we sacrifice ~10 mice a week
fucking barbarian.

>>9385645
Shitty but necessary. That's the nice way to put it btw; we sacrifice at day E15.5 of only pregnant mothers, take out the embryos, decapitate them, and harvest the neurons of the embryos to plate. Our lab tech ultimately goes through many more (I think her record is ~70 in a day).

>>9385644
every good talk is like that