I just happened to notice that my post yesterday on my protein purification woes drew Millipore as an advertising sponsor. Obviously, this makes sense – I talk protein science, scientists come and read, a life science research biotech company sees a target audience.
But the irony comes in the particular product which Millipore is toting – a 0.5mL centrifugal filter for concentrating or desalting/buffer exchange of proteins.
Have I mentioned that I have literally spent 3 years (do you see a trend in my never-ending, unsolvable research problems) attempting to dialyze imidazole out of Protein X? And how many Millipore columns I have used?
Millipore, why must you taunt me so? What’s next, Pierce advertising their Slide-a-Lyzer dialysis cassettes for quick and easy buffer exchange? (I am pretty sure that I am single-handedly keeping Pierce in business with the number of dialysis cassettes I use for all my unsuccessful dialysis attempts.)
New rule: if you advertise something as “delivers great performance”, then you better come to my lab and make it work with MY protein!
Ha ha ha, I had the same thing happen on one of my posts only it was for Eppendorf.
ReplyDeleteI swear they have to taunt us every chance they can "You'll never leave the lab."
It was doubly weird though when MidSci started following my twitter feed.