They do usually have random piles of crap, otherwise there's no actual research work being done. An analysis lab will look tidy, a research lab will look anything but
redtails said: They do usually have random piles of crap, otherwise there's no actual research work being done. An analysis lab will look tidy, a research lab will look anything but
That or this is a combo of an analysis, research and possibly a developmental(is there such a thing?) lab.
redtails said: They do usually have random piles of crap, otherwise there's no actual research work being done. An analysis lab will look tidy, a research lab will look anything but
Remember, this is how penicillin was discovered: Fleming was notoriously untidy, and left one of his Petri dishes with a bacterial culture uncovered. When he returned from his weekend vacation, he saw that the culture grew a mold, and discovered that bacterial growth was inhibited around the mold in a ring. He cultured the mold, isolated the active ingredient, and voile! penicillin was discovered.
redtails said: I must say labs are almost never that dark, unless you're doing light-sensitive reactions
They might be experimenting with laser dyes, and they need to know which one is the most reactive (brightest).
ThunderBird said: Remember, this is how penicillin was discovered: Fleming was notoriously untidy, and left one of his Petri dishes with a bacterial culture uncovered. When he returned from his weekend vacation, he saw that the culture grew a mold, and discovered that bacterial growth was inhibited around the mold in a ring. He cultured the mold, isolated the active ingredient, and voile! penicillin was discovered.
Danbooru isn't at all the right place for this, but penicillin was actually discovered by many different people decades before Fleming was even born. Fleming was the person that worked with the right technicians (again, decades after his first observation, he didn't actually care the first time he saw it). Fleming didn't actually do much work at all in the setup of a stable penicillin factory. In the end, he received all credit and we now all believe he is the one and only man behind the greatest invention of medical history. Ironic isn't it
redtails said: Danbooru isn't at all the right place for this, but penicillin was actually discovered by many different people decades before Fleming was even born. Fleming was the person that worked with the right technicians (again, decades after his first observation, he didn't actually care the first time he saw it). Fleming didn't actually do much work at all in the setup of a stable penicillin factory. In the end, he received all credit and we now all believe he is the one and only man behind the greatest invention of medical history. Ironic isn't it
Penicillin was used by people even in ancient Greece, India and what is now Serbia. They didn't understand why it worked, they just knew that certain molds, warm earth, or spider webs around wet bread, or such cured infected wounds. Fleming was the first to isolate the substance itself (he actually coined the word penicillin to refer to the filtrate of the fungus culture, containing the antibiotic), other before him treated injuries and documented the fungus itself, and sometimes not even the same species of the genus as Fleming used. Therefore, he was the one who actually discovered penicillin itself, others before him discovered its properties.
ThunderBird said: Penicillin was used by people even in ancient Greece, India and what is now Serbia. They didn't understand why it worked, they just knew that certain molds, warm earth, or spider webs around wet bread, or such cured infected wounds. Fleming was the first to isolate the substance itself (he actually coined the word penicillin to refer to the filtrate of the fungus culture, containing the antibiotic), other before him treated injuries and documented the fungus itself, and sometimes not even the same species of the genus as Fleming used. Therefore, he was the one who actually discovered penicillin itself, others before him discovered its properties.
That is correct, Fleming coined the term of a substance created by a mold. He didn't realize the clinical applications of such a substance until other people convinced him of it. Fleming thought penicillin would be a cool substance to play with in the lab, and said it would be useless for curing infections due to its inherent instability in the human body
redtails said: That is correct, Fleming coined the term of a substance created by a mold. He didn't realize the clinical applications of such a substance until other people convinced him of it. Fleming thought penicillin would be a cool substance to play with in the lab, and said it would be useless for curing infections due to its inherent instability in the human body
He realized its applications all right, as well as the instability. Initially, he distributed the original culture, but he kept trying to stabilize pennicillin, except he couldn't. Which doesn't make him any less the true discoverer of the substance, the one who isolated it first.
ThunderBird said: He realized its applications all right, as well as the instability. Initially, he distributed the original culture, but he kept trying to stabilize pennicillin, except he couldn't. Which doesn't make him any less the true discoverer of the substance, the one who isolated it first.
I still cannot agree with Fleming being the man which to attribute pennicilin to. It's a typical example of how pop-culture forgot about the hundreds of people behind a discovery and instead attributed it all upon a single figure. The particular discovery of penicillin is also a schoolbook example of how history is often not correctly told
I still cannot agree with Fleming being the man which to attribute pennicilin to. It's a typical example of how pop-culture forgot about the hundreds of people behind a discovery and instead attributed it all upon a single figure. The particular discovery of penicillin is also a schoolbook example of how history is often not correctly told
Your logic thinks Curie as first to isolate polonium, as a more radioactive component of uranium mixtures than uranium itself, totally didn't discover it because the radioactivity of Uranium materials (from which polonium was gained) was already known?
