The Life Of a Med Lab Student

Where passion and career collide<3

[evolanid]

Look what I found today!!! 😱😱😱

[fuckyeahmedlab]

Guess what I found today guys? ^.^ ten points to anyone who knows what this is

[lawblr]

Mind mapping

[labphoto]

Just for fun: reaction between elemental mercury and elemental bromine. 

It’s a quite violent reaction what generates a lot heat and because of this, most of the not yet reacted bromine evaporates as seen on the gifs. From the reaction mercurous bromide (Hg2Br2) forms what is a white, highly toxic powder, luckily not well soluble in most solvents. 

What happened here: This: 2Hg(l) + Br2(l) –> Hg2Br2(s)

Mercury(I) bromide or mercurous bromide is the chemical compound composed of mercury and bromine with the formula Hg2Br2. It changes color from white to yellow when heated and fluoresces a salmon color when exposed to ultraviolet light. It has applications in acousto-optical devices.

[fuckyeahmedlab]

this has nothing to do with Medical Laboratory Technology... but it's really cool! ^.^

[frontal-cortex]

Cooperating bacteria paint Van Gogh patterns

“Stronger together” : Indeed together cells can face environmental challenges that they separately cannot, which is a property well-known of multicellular organisms. It was recently shown that even bacteria can cooperate in order to migrate in filamentous loops called “Van Gogh bundles”. Migration is allowed by the coordination of two types of cells : matrix-producing cells form the bundle while surfactin-producing cells secrete the slippery track on which the bundles can move and push themselves from the colony.

Above : Red and green fluorescent cells represent, respectively, surfactin- and matrix-producing cells in the double-labeled PtapA-CFP PsrfA-YFP WT strain (CFP and YFP are artificially colored green and red, respectively).

van Gestel et al., PLOS Biology 2015

[studyable]

Did you know? Type O Blood was actually meant to be Type Zero blood, due to the lack of glycoproteins in the red blood cells. It was misread and is now called Type “O” blood. I guess you could call it a typo.

[bersiker]

Our white blood cells attacking a parasite.

[slavery]

Get fucked parasite

[tayloracleswift-deactivated2015]

Drag her

[republicangarbage-blog]

You can see the moment it’s like “o shIT”

[ihearthisto]

Histology Look-a-like #179

Appendix v A Cat

And that is why Rovsing’s sign was pussytive.

This appendix ain’t kitten around.

i♡histo

[fuckyeahmedlab]

Histology

[whatshouldwecallgradschool]

HOW MY LABMATES FEEL ABOUT PPE USE

credit: endlessdays-and-thingsundone

[medicalschool]

Trypanosoma brucei, a protozoan parasite, is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness in humans (T. b. gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense) and nagana in cattle (T. b. brucei). These diseases result in much economic hardship and morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The life cycle of these organisms requires an insect vector and a mammalian host. Two T. brucei parasites (blue pseudocolor) are pictured in close interaction with innate immune cells in the liver of an infected mouse. These interactions will probably result in phagocytosis of the parasite.

Image: Scanning electron microscopy of a liver slice.

[medicalschool]

Blood smear of a patient with Iron deficiency anemia at 40x enhancement

[medicalschool]

Trichomonas vaginalis is a protozoan parasite of the urogenital tract in men and women and causes a sexually transmitted disease, trichomoniasis, in about half of infected women. Infections are associated with pelvic inflammatory disease, adverse pregnancy outcomes, infertility, an increased incidence of aggressive prostate cancers, and an increase in HIV-1 transmission.

Image: Scanning electron micrograph of Trichomonas vaginalis (yellow-green) with epithelial cells (pink) where adhesion of the parasites to host cells is seen.

[fuckyeahmedlab]

The moment when you find out the real reason why girls started calling each other "Tricks."

[laboratoryequipment-blog]

Engineered Cells Reveal Neurochemical Activity Scientists have created cells with fluorescent dyes that change color in response to specific neurochemicals. By implanting these cells into living mammalian brains, they have shown how neurochemical signaling changes as a food reward drives learning, they report in Nature Methods online this week. These cells, called CNiFERs (pronounced “sniffers”), can detect small amounts of a neurotransmitter, either dopamine or norepinephrine, with fine resolution in both location and timing. Dopamine has long been of interest to neuroscientists for its role in learning, reward and addiction. Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/10/engineered-cells-reveal-neurochemical-activity

[beatricebiologist]

Cancer gene.

[asapscience]

"Culture"-ally stimulating art. Even mold can be beautiful… 

by microbiologist Antoine Bridier-Nahmias

via Magical Contamination 

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College Major Stereotypes:

Philosophy: 

Art:

Engineering:

Chemistry:

Psychology:

Gender and Sexuality Studies:

Social Work:

Women’s Studies:

Business:

Linguistics:

English:

Computer Science and Engineering:

Theater: 

Physics:

Mathematics: 

Astronomy:

Environmental Studies: 

Biology:

Anthropology:

Sociology:

International Studies:

[dotluvr]

Choaked at Theater

[love-order-chaos-repeat]

Excuse you

History:

[timeywimey-pendragon]

Law

[ohaiitsarielle]

Nursing:

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MUSIC:

[queerbot22]

Geology:

[fuckyeahmedlab]

Laboratory Sciences:

[fuckyeahmedlab]

In case you don't get the reference. People always assume us aspiring laboratory scientists' career is centered around drawing blood.

Drawing blood is the phlebotomist's job bruh.

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College Major Stereotypes:

Philosophy: 

Art:

Engineering:

Chemistry:

Psychology:

Gender and Sexuality Studies:

Social Work:

Women’s Studies:

Business:

Linguistics:

English:

Computer Science and Engineering:

Theater: 

Physics:

Mathematics: 

Astronomy:

Environmental Studies: 

Biology:

Anthropology:

Sociology:

International Studies:

[dotluvr]

Choaked at Theater

[love-order-chaos-repeat]

Excuse you

History:

[timeywimey-pendragon]

Law

[ohaiitsarielle]

Nursing:

[sherlockbringthejam-deactivated]

MUSIC:

[queerbot22]

Geology:

[fuckyeahmedlab]

Laboratory Sciences:

[sixpenceee]

Informal infographic depicting evolution