Biochemistry Gifts

Preparing for Casual Friday at the Genome Lab

Genetic Engineer - 'Can't get the parts mate!'

How DNA molecules combine.

Biochemistry. First, the term is "amino acid" not "a mean old acid."

'A geneticist laid bare my genetic blueprint, and I feel violated.'

' What Austrian bio-chemist is wasting his time with false anti-body leads?' Say - our journal has a gossip column!'

Unknown to the rest of the world, members of the scientific community have been making their own babies to order for quite some time now.

'A masters in nutrition, Ph.D. in biochemistry - you'll be perfect for writing our labels.'

GM Crops Genie.

'...well Martha's just converting some alcohol to acetaldehyde and then to acetate, and then to CO2 and water but I can get her to call you later...'

'Love is a Drug'.

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

The Jeopardy of Progress

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

"Young Frankenstein"

Occu-Pie Mars

"This is a lovely old song that tells of a young woman who leaves her cottage, and goes off to work. She arrives at her destination, and places some solid NHHS in a flask containing 0.50 atm ofammonia, and attempts to determine the pressures of ammonia and hydrogen sulide when equilibrium is reached."

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

"And when the canyon fills up, that's it; herd immunity."

2021

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

At the Museum

'It's a nice idea. A bit rough around the edges but I'm sure it will evolve given time.'

Rocket Launch Control Centre Back in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

Big Bang Theory.

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

'What motivated you to become a environmentalist?'

Albert Einstein

'Einstein, the children are getting too complex for me.'

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

"Finally, after years of work, irrefutable proof that I'm a nerd."

"E=MC² Energy=Milk·Coffee²"

"You created a robot to do your homework for you? Apparently, laziness is the mother of invention."

"I said the males were 'evolving' – I didn't say they were 'maturing.'"