Wednesday, December 22, 2010

What six months of work look like.

I did it:-)!!! Here is what human T cells look like when they get transduced with chimeric antigen receptor, frozen, cut and stained.  For info on IHC protocols and other things science related please send an email.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Going off on a tangent:


Morning newspaper of choice – New York Times… what’s interesting – Top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone, and Some Runners-Up, oh and Home Labs on the Rise for the Fun of Science.  Home lab, now that's much closer to my heart:-).  Moving on to homemade PCR machines... what will I ever do with a PCR machine at home??  I surely don't want to clone at home; I do that at work every day...  Cool blogs I run into while thinking of good home purpose: geekdad.com, geekmom.com and homebiology.blogspot.com I'm about to be a mom; can I have a cool mommy blog too? Are there any other cool mommy blogs?  Yes, and plenty TOP 50 MOM BLOGS, 2010.  I liked this lady... and this lady was pretty cool.  Oh... I know - CHEESE!!!  How would I go about making homemade cheese?  Well, there is always Probiotics - and they love their bugs.  Where do I get them?  ATCC - one at a time.... at $255 a strain I might go broke by the end of the night.  The simpler rout... buy mixed cultures at Cheesemaker.com.  Now it turns out, you will also need something called Rennet, which can be made by genetically engineering chymosin gene into Aspergillus niger... now that I can make with a home made PCR machine:-)).