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Lab work made sexy on primetime?

Don't you hate it when your BLAST searches turn up nothing!

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1) Why is that gal wearing a welding mask while she pipettes? 2) Couldn't the other gal BLAST multiple genomes?? and 3) Nice microarray data! With such massive changes couldn't they figure something out? (On second though, maybe it's just her desktop image.)

By Acme Scientist (not verified) on 20 May 2007 #permalink