Today I feel like a Mad Scientist!!!!
My Micro Biology Teacher just said she never seen anything so strange in 30 years of teaching, that pleases the hell out of me.
Today I went into my job in the Bioology Stockroom. I'm a handy person, I get to do all sorts of stuff, some banal some really cool.
In my space was a note "Can you get the muscle off this?-Paul". It was under the top of a human femur with a hip replacement. So there is this broken bone with meat and gristle on it with a metal ball joint.
I put on some gloves and started whittling away at the muscle. I realized this isn't going to work well for the minutia. So I google up how to clean bones. (http://www.boneroom.com/faqs/bones.html)
But my bone isn't found in the wild, it is from a cadaver. So there is no bacteria to eat away at the flesh.
So I had an idea. I went back to my micro class and asked the teacher for an aerobic bacteria that she thought would help eat away at the muscle but leave the bone. I was given Escherichia coli & Proteus vulgaris, both facultative anaerobes, so they can grow without air.
I just put the bone, bacteria and warm water in a bucket. I labeled it Bio- hazard and listed the contents. It will most likely start to smell in a few days, I'll empty the water either into the garden or down the sink. The bone site says that gardens love the greasy bacteria laden water that comes off of bones as they clean. So maybe I'll adopt an area of the gardens here. I don't want to try and transport this water all the way to NIMBY.
Oh this is fun and makes me feel good. And yes I have washed my hands extensively, plus I used gloves when I was whittling away at the muscle.
I'll report back as things progress. Hopefully I can get a picture of my little experiment.
Today I went into my job in the Bioology Stockroom. I'm a handy person, I get to do all sorts of stuff, some banal some really cool.
In my space was a note "Can you get the muscle off this?-Paul". It was under the top of a human femur with a hip replacement. So there is this broken bone with meat and gristle on it with a metal ball joint.
I put on some gloves and started whittling away at the muscle. I realized this isn't going to work well for the minutia. So I google up how to clean bones. (http://www.boneroom.com/faqs/bones.html)
But my bone isn't found in the wild, it is from a cadaver. So there is no bacteria to eat away at the flesh.
So I had an idea. I went back to my micro class and asked the teacher for an aerobic bacteria that she thought would help eat away at the muscle but leave the bone. I was given Escherichia coli & Proteus vulgaris, both facultative anaerobes, so they can grow without air.
I just put the bone, bacteria and warm water in a bucket. I labeled it Bio- hazard and listed the contents. It will most likely start to smell in a few days, I'll empty the water either into the garden or down the sink. The bone site says that gardens love the greasy bacteria laden water that comes off of bones as they clean. So maybe I'll adopt an area of the gardens here. I don't want to try and transport this water all the way to NIMBY.
Oh this is fun and makes me feel good. And yes I have washed my hands extensively, plus I used gloves when I was whittling away at the muscle.
I'll report back as things progress. Hopefully I can get a picture of my little experiment.