Don't Cell Out

Hello, and welcome back!

This week, we found some of our results and everything in the way of the lab seems to be going smoothly and consistently.

Things in the way of presentation, however, are not going so smoothly.

To start off, the drug titration showed the same results as the test on the drug proliferation. It seems that the cells tend to drop off at a drug concentration of around 1uM.

The western blot also showed consistent data. We saw that the MYC protein was reduced once the active drugs were added, compared to the inactive drugs. Unfortunately, we will have to repeat the experiment since the staining did not turn out quite as clearly as we would have liked.

And finally, the analysis of the RNA is in progress, and coming along smoothly.

Powerpoint, however, has not been so easy. And Excel, its analytical cousin, has been equally ornery. I’ve been attempting to create diagrams and graphs that would present the data with the elegance it deserves, and, unfortunately for everyone, the best I could do was this:

Obviously, this isn’t going to work. So, I’ve been trying to enlist the help of this strange thing called “google” to get me to a better diagram. Unfortunately, every time I google “cells”, I’m either taken back to fifth grade science or a man in black and white stripes. On the bright side, I have a few more weeks to become a professional in the art of Office.

Until then, thank you for reading!

Angela