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A Change of Heart: March 2011
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011. On Mysteries and Solving Them. Contrary to popular belief, science is serious business. Let me qualify by saying that volunteering does. Involve a degree of perfunctory chores- washing beakers, mentally calculating the order of a group representing some helical molecules using three-by-three matrices, drying beakers. But often, this job forces me to think critically. Thus preparing me for a career involving heavy brain usage, such as sleuthing or telemarketing. At any rate, mak...
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A Change of Heart: On Permount
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Friday, April 8, 2011. If you'll remember: this. Happens, and we end up with a glass slide. Immunohistochemistry ensues (another comic for another time) and it is ready be mounted! Mounting ensures that the tissue does not dry out. To do this, we glue a thin sheet of glass- a cover slip- on top of the slide. All you need to know about this glue is that it is called Permount. And Permount is very sticky. And life is a genuine mystery. Oh yes I did just go there. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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A Change of Heart: On That Hollow Sensation
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Thursday, April 21, 2011. On That Hollow Sensation. Been feeling empty lately? It might be because you. A) have the vague suspicion that human existence is illusory and trivial, or. B) haven't seen a new blog post on here for quite a while. In the case of A, you'll eventually learn to accept and love your meager role in this world. In the event of B, I offer even less help. Due to college visits and an outbreak of the lazyvirus, we. This blog and I) are taking an. Be back next week. A link to other links:.
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A Change of Heart: On Wax
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011. So we have our organs. What now? How do bloody, lukewarm chunks of flesh turn into neat glass slides you can look at under a microscope? Well, take a representative organ:. Only not. Because the world is not perfect, as evidenced by the fact that I burned my finger yet again. On dry ice this time, not liquid nitrogen. So technically I am not a repeat offender, just blunderous.). A real microtome, by the way, looks like (and costs like) this. No Super Saver Shipping either! I like...
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A Change of Heart: April 2011
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Friday, April 29, 2011. When we think of stains, we usually think of embarassing incidents at cocktail parties where we mingle, blissfully unaware of a giant glob of ketchup on our shirt collars. (No? Never happened to you? In the world of science, however, staining is usually. B) something which involves a lot of steps. But let us back up. Why stain in the first place? And what do we stain with. The answer begins with the myocardial infarction- in other words, a heart attack. I can hardly wait. On That ...
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A Change of Heart: On Staining
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Friday, April 29, 2011. When we think of stains, we usually think of embarassing incidents at cocktail parties where we mingle, blissfully unaware of a giant glob of ketchup on our shirt collars. (No? Never happened to you? In the world of science, however, staining is usually. B) something which involves a lot of steps. But let us back up. Why stain in the first place? And what do we stain with. The answer begins with the myocardial infarction- in other words, a heart attack. I can hardly wait. Your dra...
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A Change of Heart: February 2011
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Sunday, February 27, 2011. Sodium pentobarbital is injected: anesthesia. Then the rat begins to drag its limbs, because motor function is always the first to go. Pain reflexes follow. Ready? Morta, the third Fate, reaches for scissors. So does Melissa, our postdoc. She snips open the rat’s skin and a layer of fascia to reveal twitching lungs and the galloping heart beneath them. Several other cuts. Dodge the arterial blood splatter. Rat’s cause of death: lack of a heart. Every petri dish and Eppendorf tu...
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A Change of Heart: On the Nature of Experimentation, or Why You Wear Gloves
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Friday, April 1, 2011. On the Nature of Experimentation, or Why You Wear Gloves. Melissa deserves credit for this idea, accurately naming the following events "blog fodder.". Note: the contents of this post are completely true to reality and are definitely not fabulously hyperbolized by the mind of the comic-drawer featured herein. Attentive students of AP Statistics will recognize this as a variation of the matched pairs design. April 5, 2011 at 8:20 PM. April 8, 2011 at 9:48 AM. View my complete profile.
