Life Science Tools of the Trade

Uninvited, in strolls the dreaded Sales Rep. I am in the middle of setting up several reactions………….”Do you do PCR? We have the best dNTPs on the planet”………………………………………….I found it insulting, and told him so, to be interrupted and for him to make such an idiotic claim. “Like anyone can even know that Napoleon?”* There must be literally hundreds of companies selling quality dNTPs with purities >99%. I have NEVER had a pcr reaction fail because of “bad”dNTPs. Bad oligos, yes. Bad dNTPs, no. He persisted, telling me he would undersell (meaning undercut if he knew what I currently pay for dNTPs) any vendor and offered me a sample. I refused the sample. I won’t be doing business with Bioline anytime soon.

*Kip’s response to Napoleon’s claim that Uncle Rico’s video “was the worst video in the world”.

Rant time: Do the SAB members constantly posting in the “Humor Forum” really think that crap is funny?

Book suggestion: “Blink” by Martin Gladwell

Playing in the lab: Patty Griffin’s “Impossible Dream”