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this morning i am laying in bed reading science daily.
and i see an article from the NEJM about researchers at penn state that modified HIV and used it to then modify a persons T-cells to attack leukemia. and it worked in the 3 people it was done one last year 2 are 100% cancer free and the other has 70% less cancer.
this is amazing....using such a novel virus in this way is really groundbreaking (and it makes so much sense too)
i called jason in to the room to ramble off my excitement and in a moment of over dramatization fell back in to the bed and said "why can't i be smart like this!?"
"you are! you are just going to do this with bacteria!"
"but bacteria die too easily!"
i am at an impasse. maybe its just mid college panic. but i just do not know what i am doing. i know i want to do something with CLINICAL relevance. i need to do something that directly impacts people. but other than that i am staring blankly in to the abyss.
hopefully it will just hit me...soon.
in other tid bits. this is officially the poorest ive been. i have 9 dollars in my bank account until tomorrow. i have actually not hated it. i am surprised at how creative i can get with food. and since all our bills are paid its just a waiting game for friday. because of this (and because i have been working almost exclusively evenings since i got back from montana) jason has been coming home for lunch during the day. i love it.
its so unusual to see him during the day light. so that is what i am waiting for right now and then its off to work for the evening. where its all about hot coral lipstick right now.
ooh. wigstock the documentary. this will be better than reading about the ethics of eugenics.....
and i see an article from the NEJM about researchers at penn state that modified HIV and used it to then modify a persons T-cells to attack leukemia. and it worked in the 3 people it was done one last year 2 are 100% cancer free and the other has 70% less cancer.
this is amazing....using such a novel virus in this way is really groundbreaking (and it makes so much sense too)
i called jason in to the room to ramble off my excitement and in a moment of over dramatization fell back in to the bed and said "why can't i be smart like this!?"
"you are! you are just going to do this with bacteria!"
"but bacteria die too easily!"
i am at an impasse. maybe its just mid college panic. but i just do not know what i am doing. i know i want to do something with CLINICAL relevance. i need to do something that directly impacts people. but other than that i am staring blankly in to the abyss.
hopefully it will just hit me...soon.
in other tid bits. this is officially the poorest ive been. i have 9 dollars in my bank account until tomorrow. i have actually not hated it. i am surprised at how creative i can get with food. and since all our bills are paid its just a waiting game for friday. because of this (and because i have been working almost exclusively evenings since i got back from montana) jason has been coming home for lunch during the day. i love it.
its so unusual to see him during the day light. so that is what i am waiting for right now and then its off to work for the evening. where its all about hot coral lipstick right now.
ooh. wigstock the documentary. this will be better than reading about the ethics of eugenics.....