Day 1: The biomaterial lab tour~

In the afternoon, we went with our mentor Jinkai to the biomaterial lab to know more about the research he is doing.

However, when we went to the lab room, another person was going to start his experiment and Jinkai decided to let him use the lab first.

We saw him doing his research for a while, then we went to Jinkai's place in the lab since the guy was using a toxic liquid which was smelt terrible (imagine skunk)  and none of us was wearing masks.

 Another reason why we left was that the lab was REAALLY small, about 5 feet by 10; and 4 people crammed into it wasn't great.

This is Jinkai's place in the lab :)

After the guy finished his experiment, he helped Jinkai to prepare new cells with specific medicines. As the cell culture was sensitive to light, we turned off the light in the lab and did the experiment in dark...

 Preparation for new cells.

Jinkai took out some cells from the incubator and change the cell culture medium added a few days ago. He explained that this will help the cells to grow in  good conditions and prevent them from changing to other unexpected, (unwanted)  things. Another reason was that the cell culture would get poisoned etc, as too many days in that medium would be harmful to the cell culture.

He also emphasised that it is easy to change the medium in this experiment because the cells (in this case) stay at  the bottom of the cell culture  rather than float on the medium, which would make it quite difficult to change the medium.

Several samples were prepared to as to lower the chances of anomalies. Because if one set is skewed then we could analyse it and hopefully find out what went wrong, etc so as to prevent it from happening again. 

 Changing the medium.

Eventually, got a look at the cell culture before popping it back into the incubator for it to grow. Maybe will take  a look at it soon?

This is the picture of cells under microscope.  ♪(^∇^*)