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“Today will be another exciting day for drug discovery” I told myself
Chilling and walking over to my messy lab bench in the dark. Just having the light turn on for my bench. I love going back early in the morning before everyone else, this is when I could have the whole lab to myself. Me, only me and science, no one else.
I get ready to culture the bacteria in to the Brain Heart Infusion Broth, the medium that the bacteria enjoy. It also carries that distinctive, beefy smell from opening the bottle each time. I have always wanted to try them, should be something like a salty soup, best served hot probably~
After doing the cultures, its time to look at yesterday’s result. Please please please, please show me something that works, I told myself. Make my day!! Here I look to the left and compare to the right. Yes!! Some of the bacteria didn’t grown upon the addition of the certain drugs when compared to the controls. (Drum rolls sound) We Got Hits!!! New hopes for new drugs against multidrug resistant bacteria!!
It is about time to get ready for the next screening,
Brain Hearth Infusion Broth – Checked,
Bacteria growth – Checked,
Small molecule drug libraries – Checked,
Robotic arm platform – Checked
I talked to myself in Tony Stark’s tone. J.A.R.V.I.S. is that robotic arm platform system!!
J.A.R.V.I.S. pass me that,
J.A.R.V.I.S. add the Broth into the 96 wells plate,
J.A.R.V.I.S. add the drugs and control,
J.A.R.V.I.S. add the bacteria to the plates,
J.A.R.V.I.S. put everything into the incubator.
I wish this was all real, my J.A.R.V.I.S. isn’t “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System”, but more of “Just A Rather Veteran Integrated System”. Its semi-automatic, I need to take part in some steps to make sure things go smooth.
Anyway, things are done for the day, let’s see how things turn out tomorrow, tomorrow will be another exciting day. Let get all those hits for next round screening, for more potent compounds. Then study them in more depths!!
Hopefully something will come up good for animal testings and eventually to human clinical trials!!
It is dark in the night, another day in lab, while the drugs are doing different action to the bacteria, the bacteria are trying hard to resist them. I am pretty sure later on, for our drugs, one or two of those bastards will find ways to evade them. But until then, we should keep the drug discovery pipeline open. The mistake was made decades ago for stopping new antibiotics researches, and we face the antibiotics void now.
Bad bugs with no drugs, I am not going to let this happen to my child’s generation.
Hope you guys enjoy my day just like I do
I would also like to take this opportunity to prove you guys my identity, haha
This photo was taken at my university by my friend~
Cheers~
Love seeing other microbiologists here on steem.
Where do you have your lab?
Have tasted, really nothing to enjoy. Sorta savory but pretty nasty and bland.
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High five microbiologists!!
My lab is in Hong Kong, a basic research lab in university haha.
Upvote for you have tasted it!! (sorry, it didn't even worth a cent now)
But they always smells so good especially when they came out of the autoclave, haha
Just followed you, I will follow all microbiologist i run into in Steemit, please let me know who else are microbiologists~ Steem on
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Cheers!
The scientific community here is moving slowly haha, don't know of any other MBs here.
I have always wanted to visit HK. I have been to mainland a few times but I never got all the ducks in a row to cross the border.
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Cool, feel free to drop by and visit Hong Kong, I could recommend where to go if you want haha
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@biuiam I love how enthusiastic you are about microbiology!
Maybe you can help cure the root disease of humankind... Aging.
You will profit and you will save billions of people from death.
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Haha, thank you, but I must say, no, aging is not a root of disease. And we must be allow to age or grow unless we are allow to stop reproduction.
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Nice post. Very informative and useful to the reader. Good work and good content. Will continue to follow. Enjoyed your post.
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thank you~ steem on with your post too~
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The key of success for everyone here is the power of your vote
Upvote and follow and comments other to make there feelings express and be heard with everybody
Do the same guys ;)
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