I did something stupid in lab again.... After carefully taking the agarose gel out of the box without breaking it (which took a long time), I immediately dropped it on the floor and it split into several pieces. After the initial shock, we were able to pick it up off the floor and continue with our experiment (cutting out the bands that had our desired DNA on it). We had to be really careful, though, because the gel has a carcinogen in it that inserts itself into DNA. It didn't help things that Shilpa stepped and slid on a piece! posted by Melike at 13:18
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
ew, lab
Today was one of the worst lab days. First, I grabbed the bucket off a shelf to get some ice, and it happened to be filled with water (it's supposed to be empty! it's always been empty!!), so I ended up spilling it all over my lab partner's notebook. It was soaked. Later on, I used way too much plasmid sample to make a dilution, so we had none left for our other experiment. We had to ask the TAs for it and wait around until they prepared it for us. I'm so clumsy and I don't want to be. I'm just really stupid when it comes to lab. I always do something wrong! All the time! posted by Melike at 19:22
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