ITT: Lab Stories / Fuck-Ups

obligatory pic related

>high morality water
top kek

>microbio research
>doing a project with 2 other guys, we are each in charge of a separate gene on an operon
>1 of them has his shit contaminated so much it was untracable, halfway through had to stop
>other guy kept fucking up his lacZ fusion, took him extra 3 or 4 weeks
>As the only one unscathed, had to check reagents to see if they are contaminated
>eventually trace it to the taq polymerase when I PCRed, somehow me and that one guy miraculously avoided contamination
>find out the newbie researchers also used that vial of taq poly

Doesn't it cost like 200k to get one back up and running? Ignoring the damage.

depends, you don't have to do a full quench if it's not an emergency and provided that the metal object isn't too large

What the fuck is high morality water?

>the joke
>your head

>in micro lab
>working with e coli doing streak plates for the first day
>yeah its baby stuff but Id rather not have that shit spill on me
>guy asks me for help with technique
>I walk over, make a little diagram on paper for him on how to drag the loop through so it works right
>pics up e coli vial
>inoculates loop
>holds vial sideways while streaking plate
>e coli spilling all over his arm, pants and table
>smells like absolute shit
>"hey hey hey stop stop lift the vial up the right way!"
>"what?"
>still spilling bacteria all over himself
>"lift it up, youre spilling it! lift it up!"
>"what"
>finally looks down at drenched pants and shirt
>its spilling down his arm and into his glove
>"oh shit oh shit"
>thanks me for letting him know
>drops out of lab the next day

Hahahaha what the fuck
How did he not feel it?

>should have
Shpuld have never accepted delivery honestly.