DAMNED SHREDDER!

Welp, good things are happening in the lab if not in life, but as many pictures that we have of our samples... I cant find a darned one of em that is cool without a 3D projection! So I'll probably take some pictures on friday throught he normal light microscope and post those. Hopefully the cells last that long. In other lab news.. Splinter and I are looking at publishing our findings so we are currently preparing for our next set of experiments. It is going to be the same experiment, only we will be doing it much more exactly and with lots more documentation. Today Splinter and I practicing for the pictures we will be taking to include in our article. To do this we had to use a CryoSomethingorother and take micrometer slices of our hydrogels so that we can MANUALLY do what we have been doing with the confocal... looking at our gels layer by layer. Also we are gunna be doing immuno tests on it.

My big adventure today was to try do these gel slices without Splinters aide, it was a disaster because the machine broke 5 minutes after she left and apparently no one knows how to use the stupid thing. So after an hour of dinking around somone finally let me in on how the thing worked and then I was able to maximize the output of the slicer getting really good slices of gel. I totally left that damned machine running at 200% from when I found it. When Splinter got back I had to show how to do some of the things I had found out so she could use em. Its really fun to try and impress Splinter, because she is always really enthusiastic about our project and if we figure something out that helps it along she gets really excited. Excitement is something you don't see in the sciences too much.

Andy