Yes biologists use tiny tiny tweezers to change DNA

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otter@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 1y

This is why the quantum expander device is helpful

MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y (5 replies)

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

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 27 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Quantum tweezers change text based on observation

otacon239@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Twæsers

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 1y

Love it! Mai brain!

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y

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

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y

owo tweasews

Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 1y (5 replies)

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

Isoprenoid@programming.dev · 12 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I butchered it

reinei@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

Exo- or endo-nuclease!

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

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

gmtom@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

nicerdicer@feddit.org · 17 pts · 1y

Like this:

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

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!

stray@pawb.social · 13 pts · 1y

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.

athairmor@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Genetic aestheticians.

nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y

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

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

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

Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y

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

latenightnoir@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

yoink