Hi ho, all!
Yay, I finally got up into the lab! Today I learned how to run the autoclave - that is a sterilizer that is kind of like a huge computerized pressure cooker... wonder if it would do a good job on roast and potatoes? Then I learned pipetting and measured tiny bits of water into a little dish on a very sensitive scale and recorded the weights. Next I get to make a graph of all the results and measure the deviations of the weights - hopefully getting the results clustered as close together as possible. "Get to" is optimistic positive talk for "have to".
Also, today I was given my own petri dish of breast cancer cells - I have to change the media they grow in every 2-3 days, and divide the cells when they grow too crowded. Kind of like caring for a malignant chia-pet. I looked at them through a digital microscope - it was crazy. They are all different sizes, and shapes. Regular body cells would all be uniform - you can look at one and pretty much predict what the rest are going to look like. Not so with the cancer cells- they were all over the board. Time went a lot faster up there too -
Happy days to you!
Leslie
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