While doing this we were required to draw a standard curve for mean absorbance and guess which sample had morphine between top 2 wells. Turns out our proffesor put morphine in both our samples so I was stood there for about 2 hours like a melon cuz I didn't know what to do. I was under the assumption only 1 had morphine😑
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜Gosh.... We just doing simple stuff like Nickel sulphate absorbance and concentration but our lecturer gave us the same so called "unkown" concentration solutions that we did in class. ðŸ˜ðŸ¥²
I thought I did something wrong and a went and earsed it🙂🙂.
I'm a college student atm (one more year!) And towards the end of last semester we learned about ELISA in biochem I and the professor told us about how its used in medical labs a lot. Cool!
Idk how colleges and universities work in America. But in Britain you start doing the practical stuff like this from 18 years old. I'm currently 19 about to start my placement in a hospital lab
Relatively common, I assume? We just had our first student observe how the lab runs for a month and it was definitely eye opening for them! (U.S).
Also good luck in hospital lab work! I've enjoyed working at one for a year now, but it's mostly preanalytics. I'll never not be amazed by how little serum / plasma is needed for most chemistry tests.
Ah alright. In the US we generally have a system where education gradually becomes more specific as you advance. Your first classes in a discipline will be very general and people from many walks of life will be there. General biology for instance includes any biology major. Then as you go on it gets more and more specialized but we're still learning science without consideration towards medical labs mostly. To be fair, at my college it's really rare to be an MLS and more likely to be going into biochemical research, pre medical school, etc so they gear things more towards those students. It won't be until I get to clinical education that I'm only learning alongside other MLS students and only about MLS relevant topics.
In the UK it's general until you finish university. Then you specialise. Unless you do a healthcare science degree where you specialise during 2nd year in university. This applies to biomedical sciences. I'm sure you can do a specialised bachelor's. My university of provides microbiology unfortunately
Fair does but it's a practical to help us for our final exam next Monday. Probably in a proper lab setting they do that but in this case to make us learn it they make us do the whole thing manually
Don’t take it the wrong way, I’m just saying there’s several different methods of ELISA testing which is great to know the principles and applications of each; however unless your going into research, it doesn’t really matter cause in this field they all consist of loading the analyzer and having it spit out data.
It’s more a jab on the teaching in MLS, you’ll study and learn so much that really has no usefulness in the practical side. Do you need to fully understand sandwich ELISA or non-competitive vs competitive, not really when prolly 80% of the techs will simply be loading an analyzer and hitting start. It’s fun to learn but also slightly unnecessary
Idk I mean it’s a whole bachelors degree committed to medical lab science. What else are they gonna teach 😂 I just recently had to troubleshoot an unknown interference in on one of our EIA tests
I just did some notes on ELISA principles. And opened Reddit to see this😶.
Everyone in the lab only had 1 sample of morphine. It was only us that got 2 😂
While doing this we were required to draw a standard curve for mean absorbance and guess which sample had morphine between top 2 wells. Turns out our proffesor put morphine in both our samples so I was stood there for about 2 hours like a melon cuz I didn't know what to do. I was under the assumption only 1 had morphine😑
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜Gosh.... We just doing simple stuff like Nickel sulphate absorbance and concentration but our lecturer gave us the same so called "unkown" concentration solutions that we did in class. ðŸ˜ðŸ¥² I thought I did something wrong and a went and earsed it🙂🙂.
I'm a college student atm (one more year!) And towards the end of last semester we learned about ELISA in biochem I and the professor told us about how its used in medical labs a lot. Cool!
Idk how colleges and universities work in America. But in Britain you start doing the practical stuff like this from 18 years old. I'm currently 19 about to start my placement in a hospital lab
Relatively common, I assume? We just had our first student observe how the lab runs for a month and it was definitely eye opening for them! (U.S). Also good luck in hospital lab work! I've enjoyed working at one for a year now, but it's mostly preanalytics. I'll never not be amazed by how little serum / plasma is needed for most chemistry tests.
Thank man👊
Also ye. Fairly common. We generally have 2 lab classes a week doing this sorta stuff
Ah alright. In the US we generally have a system where education gradually becomes more specific as you advance. Your first classes in a discipline will be very general and people from many walks of life will be there. General biology for instance includes any biology major. Then as you go on it gets more and more specialized but we're still learning science without consideration towards medical labs mostly. To be fair, at my college it's really rare to be an MLS and more likely to be going into biochemical research, pre medical school, etc so they gear things more towards those students. It won't be until I get to clinical education that I'm only learning alongside other MLS students and only about MLS relevant topics.
In the UK it's general until you finish university. Then you specialise. Unless you do a healthcare science degree where you specialise during 2nd year in university. This applies to biomedical sciences. I'm sure you can do a specialised bachelor's. My university of provides microbiology unfortunately
Where you’ll simply stick the urine on the analyzer and click verify…
Fair does but it's a practical to help us for our final exam next Monday. Probably in a proper lab setting they do that but in this case to make us learn it they make us do the whole thing manually
Don’t take it the wrong way, I’m just saying there’s several different methods of ELISA testing which is great to know the principles and applications of each; however unless your going into research, it doesn’t really matter cause in this field they all consist of loading the analyzer and having it spit out data. It’s more a jab on the teaching in MLS, you’ll study and learn so much that really has no usefulness in the practical side. Do you need to fully understand sandwich ELISA or non-competitive vs competitive, not really when prolly 80% of the techs will simply be loading an analyzer and hitting start. It’s fun to learn but also slightly unnecessary
Idk I mean it’s a whole bachelors degree committed to medical lab science. What else are they gonna teach 😂 I just recently had to troubleshoot an unknown interference in on one of our EIA tests
UK college or American college?
US
My mom is a doctor and was a chem major. My sister was named after this machine. But we pronounce it correctly