I demonstrated a prac on PCR yesterday. It's a fun prac. The students got to extract DNA from their cheek cells and then replicate a specific section of it exponentially in a process called PCR that you may well have heaqrd mentioned on CSI or similar ( Read more... )

So yesterday my standard arrived. Today I did an assay with it.

My standard curve has an r squared value of 1.

1!

Usually you get 0.9 something I have never ever had such a linear standard curve.

Joy!

I sure hope some of the people reading this understand my excitement
*listens*
*hears crickets*
*sees a tumbleweed*

*cuss*

Recently, my triglyceride kit came in. I was excited by this as I had been waiting awhile for it ( Read more... )

I spilt ethanol in my lab book. Pure ethanol. About 20mL. Luckily, it hasn't erased all my work. The titles and first few lines of each page are faded and covered in purple washiness. I like purple and the situation is amusing so it is not really a problem.

Still, thought I would share my foolishness with you all.

We all have things about our friends that make us slightly envious ( Read more... )

Thursday is pay day. I get paid from work weekly (if I work) and from scholarship and demonstrating fortnightly. This Thursday is one of the scholarship ones so I feel rich. I am not so rich as those who live at home and get scholarship but I am richer than last year so this is a good thing for me ( Read more... )

It is just as well I enjoy pouring and loading gels because otherwise this would upset me more ( Read more... )

Ah I loves having my laptop at uni. I have truly mastered the art of listening to music and doing work. I have taken to listening to lots of electric six, especially if I am just filling in orders and writing up things. It causes me to dance a little despite sitting down. Joy ( Read more... )

Today I made stock solutions ( Read more... )

Today I found out that at least one of my students likes me. Vanessa (course coordinator) told me that one girl in my group was going to swap due to timetable issues but decided to stay because she "really liked the demonstrator". This made me very happy ( Read more... )