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x2dm
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Well I'm a scientist, and I'm currently in academia, so I only have a casual acquaintance with the terms "real job" and "paid"... But most of my work does involve fluorescent yeast.
x2dm
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Here's a picture I took of one of my buddies. This little guy has fluorescently-labeled chromosomes that we can track with live-cell microscopy:
x2dm
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The green and red dots correspond to two different locations along one of the yeast's chromosomes that are tagged using two different fluorescent DNA-binding proteins.
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So cool!!
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lolol