Going In Vivo
This is actually old data, but I am showing it to illustrate that my MRI reporter gene I have been working on is ready to go in vivo. Sigh its also a .tiff and I’m too tired to change it tonight. I put the reporter in a retrovirus and injected it into the brains of developing mice I just started my first imaging run on these brains. By tomorrow I will have some idea as to whether this is going to work or not. If that is the case then I will be doing very well and I will definitely have something to brag about at the upcoming ISMRM conference in Berlin in May.
The pendulum of mental ability swings back towards science for a while. That’s how things work for me. I just wish I could make the transition more freely. All art projects are brutally dropped for my big breakthough, but I can’t just not show up to the lab on days when I’m not feeling it. Someday futureBen someday.