Ah, yes. Work.

I seriously hate blogging. The fact that I'm doing this is even surprising to myself.

Anyway, I started my work at the University of Arizona's Building of Medicine. Well, actually I started two weeks ago, but whatever.

Besides the fact that I wake up early every morning  regretting that I stayed up so late the previous night, I really enjoy working in the lab. From 9 to about 4 everyday, I do SCIENCE. Well, SCIENCE is a bit vague but I'll cover it later in this post.

My work is exactly like this (That's a lie)

So in the lab it's just me and Aparna (My advisor). I am the only person working with her. No one else. Just me. The main focus of our research is to identify hypoxic regions of the tumor and determine if BiP and/or PERK, ATF4 or Nrf2 co-localize with regions of hypoxia and also to determine whether down regulation of BiP and/or PERK enhances the sensitivity of hypoxic regions of tumors to therapy induced cell death. What this all means is that we're looking at the kinases BiP and PERK and lowering the amount of them within tumors to see if the tumors become less resistant to chemo-therapy and radiation treatments. Fun right?

First of all, we need tumors. So we order fertilized chicken eggs, open a centimeter by centimeter square in the shell and inject tumor cells into the the chicken. We then put the chicks back into the incubator and wait a week. Four days before the chicks hatch we sacrifice (Yes "sacrifice is in fact the correct term for this :3) by gently cutting off the top of the shell were the tumor was injected. Then we literally toss the fetus into the trash. Yes, I know, it's very humane.

This would be sorta what I do

Partially relevant

I'll add more to this when I get my interest back. Oh yeah and if there are spelling errors, ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ I ain't even mad.