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Hey guys! I hope everyoneās having a great weekend.
I had a long week, but we made it through! Iām making very good progress on my journal club presentation. I need to take some time to finalise it but after that I can start practising! I found this paper super interesting, so Iām quite hype to be presenting about it.
I spent most of the week with my head buried in proteins. Either I was performing mutagenesis, bacteria transformation, and sequencing to make sure everything worked, or repeating the extraction of the proteins that didnāt work last week. Iāll find out about the latter on Monday, but I got my sequencing results back yesterday and everything seemed to work fine, so I can start extracting the new proteins next week! This was really good news to receive on a Friday, and I feel like I could go into the weekend peacefully.
I also received another patient sample this week and it was genuinely the biggest thing Iāve ever seen removed from a body. I was truly unaware that a brain tumour to get that big, and I feel truly sorry for the patient that to suffer because of this. I am currently in the process of isolating T cells from the material and all I can do is hope that one day my research will help people like this.
Still, one good thing that came out of this was a long conversation with my dad about what I do with the sample once I receive it, how we ensure patient consent, and generally what a day in my life looks like when Iām in the lab, and as a result of this conversation I decided I would film a vlog for him. I didnāt expect Iād have many interesting things to show, but turns out filming is actually incredibly fun and I had a blast doing it!! The editing process is also very soothing, so maybe this can be something I do againā¦ we shall see.
Iāve spent most of my Saturday cooking and baking in preparation for my parents coming to spend the night. Theyāre going on vacation tomorrow and Iāll be looking after their cat for the week, so theyāre dropping him off and leaving in the morning. I will, of course, be providing pictures of the fat lad.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Spend some time with a loved one today. You never know how much either of you may need it.
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