Mon 21st

I visited Robert Ros lab and looked at the optical microscope that uses laser beams to scan the surfaces and measures molecules in the nanometer scale. Tomorrow, I will be looking at the surface of cancer cells and looking at how adhesive the cancer cells are. I will be learning how to calibrate the expensive laser beams optical microscope , how to handle cell culture and how to use the laminar flow hood to not contaiminate myself or the cell cultures. I will be choosing my project and I would like to work on the folding of DNA into various shapes like a triangle , a box using different hybrid strands. That will be very interesting to use in a geometry curriculum.