This isn’t my field but like it shouldn’t be horrible to drink a little sip of this right? It’s just salts and amino acids and sugar, so I’d expect worst case scenario you majorly throw off your electrolyte balance and possibly give your kidneys and liver a lot of amino acids to get rid of. But that’d probably require drinking a significant amount yes?
Anyone with more bio knowledge want to correct or confirm this hypothesis?
It's very bad scientific practice to eat anything in the lab. In this case it is also a bad idea because the clean up often uses nasty chemicals that are very much unsafe to eat. However if the clean up worked as the company wanted it to, its save. Single cells are externally vulnerable and thrive in this stuff. Your digestive system is a wonder of bio chemistry and will most likely show no sign of irritation.
Can’t you swap out DMEM for sports drinks anyway (with the Japanese brand Green Dakara being the best replacement)? That implies DMEM is basically a sports drink itself, if you think about it.
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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 276d
The safety data sheet says nothing about not drinking it...
pennomi@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 276d
bonenode@piefed.social · 5 pts · 276d
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 4 pts · 276d
Great vintage!
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 276d
This isn’t my field but like it shouldn’t be horrible to drink a little sip of this right? It’s just salts and amino acids and sugar, so I’d expect worst case scenario you majorly throw off your electrolyte balance and possibly give your kidneys and liver a lot of amino acids to get rid of. But that’d probably require drinking a significant amount yes?
Anyone with more bio knowledge want to correct or confirm this hypothesis?
FreeBeard@slrpnk.net · 26 pts · 276d
It's very bad scientific practice to eat anything in the lab. In this case it is also a bad idea because the clean up often uses nasty chemicals that are very much unsafe to eat. However if the clean up worked as the company wanted it to, its save. Single cells are externally vulnerable and thrive in this stuff. Your digestive system is a wonder of bio chemistry and will most likely show no sign of irritation.
Iunnrais@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 275d
Can’t you swap out DMEM for sports drinks anyway (with the Japanese brand Green Dakara being the best replacement)? That implies DMEM is basically a sports drink itself, if you think about it.
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 275d
It is a sports drink for cells!
patrlim@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 275d
It's got what plants crave
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 7 pts · 276d
Often served as a cocktail with some FBS.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 275d
Hey, it's all proteins. Do you want to get as muscular as a cow or not?!
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 275d
What is it supposed to be for?
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 275d
it's basically food for cells living in a petri dish iirc
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 276d
The reason is that you can take the same people and slide the panels to the left iteratively.
Pika@rekabu.ru · 1 pts · 267d
Cell biologists: hey, that smells good
Microbiologists working with YPD, MRS etc.: kill me