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Hello everyone! Sorry that I have been a little quiet here lately – lab work has picked up the pace a bit and so I’m still trying to adjust to balancing everything. Unfortunately it was my blog that had to take the backseat, but I’ll try and get back into posting regularly… pinky promise! A… Continue reading My monthly feature… decided!
This week I have been working on an experiment I have been learning called the Comet assay and so I wanted to tell you all a little bit about how it works. Like a lot of the experiments I’ve been learning lately, its one that allows us to assess the damage of DNA in a… Continue reading The Comet assay
Last week I started a really exciting experiment using a skin biopsy…! For any experiments using human samples, scientists have to seek approval first from an ethics committee to ensure that volunteers, samples and data will all be handled correctly or ‘ethically’. For even a small saliva sample, ethics approval is necessary before carrying out any… Continue reading Isolating cells from a skin biopsy
I’ve finally hit the 10 post mark on my blog now and I’m super proud of myself for reaching this milestone. I’ve always been really keen to engage with people about science through writing a blog, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been challenging at times to remember to regularly update you all on what… Continue reading A monthly feature?
Whilst visiting Manchester for Easter we popped over to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Jodrell Bank is a University of Manchester observatory that is open to the public to find out about the work that takes place there. The site is home to the Lovell Telescope – the third largest radio telescope in… Continue reading Jodrell Bank Observatory
An advantage of my lab work getting off to a slower start than I expected is that I could enjoy the free time I had over the Easter weekend visiting family in Manchester, without being tied down by experiment commitments. Whilst up North for a few days we decided to check out some of the… Continue reading Museum of Science and Industry
I was hoping to publish this post last week but got caught up in the Easter break and so it’s a little bit late (sorry!). But anyway, I wanted to chat about my experience a couple of weeks ago with an assessment centre… Now, until I came to university, I didn’t even realise that assessment… Continue reading My assessment centre experience
