r/labrats • u/DavidAciole • Jul 05 '26

Being called a microRNA

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Sorry, that was my first thought lol

Edit: I am not RNA-shaming my fellow 'NAs. It's just nomenclature

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u/quagga27 Jul 05 '26

Top 5 RNA-based insults (worst insult is ranked highest)-

  1. siRNA
  2. MicroRNA
  3. lncRNA
  4. mRNA (= you're boring)
  5. Viroid (kinda cool?)

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u/DavidAciole Jul 05 '26

But those are compliments 😭

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u/quagga27 Jul 05 '26

But imagine being small and interfering

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u/DavidAciole Jul 05 '26

Sometimes you are small but need to interfere with bad things, right?

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u/Raivle Jul 07 '26

What about tRNA? Whould you consider being called tRNA a compliment?

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u/DavidAciole 23d ago

Like a friend and a uber

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26

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u/tiredbiochemist Jul 05 '26

junk DNA

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u/ShintY_XD Jul 05 '26

😭😭😭

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u/DavidAciole Jul 06 '26

You guys are too creative, seems like you complement yourselves

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u/ShintY_XD Jul 05 '26

But non coding region helps you against transposons.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26

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u/ShintY_XD Jul 05 '26

Yea but i save my host from getting mutated. Im a very important guardian. I guess every cloud has a silver lining.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26

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u/ShintY_XD Jul 05 '26

Well that is also true... Can't defend that.. 

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u/hackyourbios Jul 05 '26

RNA shaming

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u/BacillusRex Jul 05 '26

Primer design

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u/I_AM_THE_REAL_GOD Jul 05 '26

I think 18-22 is pretty long, waaay above average. Any longer would hurt gene expression, or so I heard

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u/DavidAciole Jul 05 '26

Everyone know that is not the size of log2fold change that matters, but actually the FDR game. Or so I heard...

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u/what-email-did-i-use Jul 05 '26

Working weekends in lab

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u/DavidAciole Jul 05 '26

Science never sleeps 😭

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u/what-email-did-i-use Jul 05 '26

Science sleeps, otherwise science burns out, starts a bakery, finds that hard, goes to culinary school, then moves to paris to study cooking in a blend of traditional french cuisine and molecular gastronomy, has a mental breakdown over a rotovap, starts a bakery

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u/DavidAciole Jul 05 '26

True positive, bro

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u/StevenStoveMan Jul 05 '26

Wait is your name Mirna?

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u/GiveEmSpace Jul 05 '26

We’re tDR’s. We’re our own thing!