Borrowing from WB Yeats until I get flowing better, but the excited, trusting, apprehensive tone of this poem fits perfectly:
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The Joys of PCR
We ran the first squirrel PCRs overnight last night, and this morning ran the products on a gel to see how we did. We didn’t do great. In fact, we got nothing. So, for the ...
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The Learning Curve
It probably doesn’t surprise anyone, but the learning curve for laboratory research is incredibly steep. Yesterday, it took me two hours to prepare 25 squirrel liver samples for the afternoon Genetics lab. We ran in ...