I've worked for a year in a lab doing cancer genomics and had to learn everything from scratch, since my background is in computer science.
It's definitely possible to learn enough to be productive within a few months, but to actually comprehend and understand the underlying biology takes much, much longer. I still don't understand much of what is presented by people from other labs outside of my specialty.
It's definitely possible to learn enough to be productive within a few months, but to actually comprehend and understand the underlying biology takes much, much longer. I still don't understand much of what is presented by people from other labs outside of my specialty.