Little things that gave scientist-me a major thrill... before they became tedious routine or just a *+§$§~#* pain ..
- Feeling my first endothermic reaction... the tube cooled up..I couldn't let go!
- My first colour reaction... something with iodene and starch....reddish to blue-black..everyone went 'ooooh'.. I looked cool..but was doing cartwheels inside :D
- Fixing and staining *pathogenic* bacteria for the first time
- Focusing my first microscope..on aforementioned bacteria
- Figuring out how to manipulate data...and be realistic!
- My first record...zoology..it's a work of art!
- Sectioning onion roots and microscoping 'em FTFT (for the first time!)
- Poking myself to get a blood typing sample...I'm still proud of me!
- Watching little bits of stem grow into little plants in tubes.
- Running the HPLC and Mass spec.. all them tubes and things..
- The defining moment...Growing my first cells- G292 osteosarcoma cells.. labelling the flask with my name!
- Watching the G292s detach when I trp-digest them.... gets me everytime..it's still fun!
- My first contamination.
- Getting my own brand new set of pipettes.. with my name on them.
- Isolating cells from gory bits of bone.. and watching the cells grow *sniff* I'm so proud!
- *hoping* something useful comes of every experiment I start...
2 comments:
was not caustic soda-hydrochloric acid titration in the presence of phenolphthalein your first color reaction?
why does starch mixed with iodine result in the reaction mass turning blue?
..I dunno yeh snarky chemist.. being the biologist I am I was like oooh and fluttering my eyelashes at the pretty colors!
..something about I5- getting stuck in ß-amylose coils and changing the electron energy levels...like I said though..some of this, some of that, the color changed..oooh..pretty.
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