Prepare and analyze samples to study effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, or microorganisms on cell structure and tissue.

“Prepare and analyze samples to study effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, or microorganisms on cell structure and tissue.” is a supplemental task performed by Epidemiologists. Among the occupation's 15 rated tasks, workers place it 2nd by importance (#14 most important). About 47% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Analyze biological or chemical substances or related data. in Analyzing Data or Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Communicate research findings on various types of diseases to health practitioners, policy makers, and the public. · importance 4.5
• Oversee public health programs, including statistical analysis, health care planning, surveillance systems, and public health improvement. · importance 4.3
• Investigate diseases or parasites to determine cause and risk factors, progress, life cycle, or mode of transmission. · importance 4.3
• Monitor and report incidents of infectious diseases to local and state health agencies. · importance 4.2
• Educate healthcare workers, patients, and the public about infectious and communicable diseases, including disease transmission and prevention. · importance 4.2
• Plan and direct studies to investigate human or animal disease, preventive methods, and treatments for disease. · importance 4.2
• Provide expertise in the design, management and evaluation of study protocols and health status questionnaires, sample selection, and analysis. · importance 4.1
• Identify and analyze public health issues related to foodborne parasitic diseases and their impact on public policies, scientific studies, or surveys. · importance 3.9
• Plan, administer and evaluate health safety standards and programs to improve public health, conferring with health department, industry personnel, physicians, and others. · importance 3.8
• Conduct research to develop methodologies, instrumentation, and procedures for medical application, analyzing data and presenting findings. · importance 3.7
• Consult with and advise physicians, educators, researchers, government health officials and others regarding medical applications of sciences, such as physics, biology, and chemistry. · importance 3.5
• Supervise professional, technical, and clerical personnel. · importance 3.4
• Teach principles of medicine and medical and laboratory procedures to physicians, residents, students, and technicians. · importance 2.9
• Standardize drug dosages, methods of immunization, and procedures for manufacture of drugs and medicinal compounds.

See all tasks on the Epidemiologists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-5432,
  title  = {Prepare and analyze samples to study effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, or microorganisms on cell structure and tissue.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-5432}
}