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O*NET detailed work activityPrepare biological samples for testing or analysis
Stays humanHands-on work
8 jobs9 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Prepare specimens or materials for testing, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Process blood or other fluid samples for further analysis by other medical professionals.
- Isolate, identify and prepare specimens for examination.
- Prepare samples or photomicrographs for testing and analysis.
- Prepare or incubate slides with cell cultures.
- Prepare laboratory samples for analysis, following proper protocols to ensure that they will be stored, prepared, and disposed of efficiently and effectively.
- Prepare collections of preserved specimens or microscopic slides for species identification and study of development or disease.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes.
- Isolate and maintain cultures of bacteria or other microorganisms in prescribed or developed media, controlling moisture, aeration, temperature, and nutrition.
- Identify hair problems, using microscopes and testing devices, or by sending clients' hair samples out to independent laboratories for analysis.