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Yes, this is officially my last day at work. In the Brigham that is. For now:-) It's amazing how quickly 6 months can pass. Today I gave my final talk, presenting all the data I produced (or failed to produce) during my internship in David Kwiatkowski's… more »

For those of you wondering if I'm actually still doing science stuff, I can say that I'm setting up a major labelling experiment. This is of somewhat a pain because nobody has used the hot room for 2 years, so I have to scrape some things together and a… more »

So I more or less completed my experiments with RT-PCR and confirmed what I had suspected from the beginning: It's just not sensitive enough to detect the differences in gene expression we're facing. So I'm preparing for real-time RT-PCR, I'm sure that… more »

... you really can make RNA loading dye with > 10 year old formamide and get sharp bands! (Usually, old formamide will chop your RNA like hell) I'm eager to see what my RT-PCRs will look like tomorrow! more »

Slowly things are beginning to cook in the lab. Today we had a very interesting hamartoma lecture by Brendan Manning along with some nice cookies (those huge ones that are bigger than a CD). I will be trying to do some quantitative RT-PCR so I've been d… more »

Today was not so terribly interesting because there is simply so much administrative stuff to fulfill and attend, which is kind of understandable. Still, I had to watch 2 hours of movie guides with some 20 other newbies about stuff that did not really c… more »

So today was my first day of work. Well you couldn't call if work yet, but still, it was my first day at Brigham and Women's Hospital. I received a visitor's security badge and met with Prof. David Kwiatkowski at his office on the 6th floor. He's a very… more »