mrichi

An immunology nerd doing research in cancer and malaria. My favourites are natural killer and CD8+CD62L+.

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Most popular: UK doctoral training centres prepare students to run a lab — or work outside academia. http://t.co/OG2Ep49w

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@HorryHead #Kylie_Kwong is a half Chinese.

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when you do tail vein injection, don't anesthetise them. it reduces blood circulation making it harder.

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There are now four FACS machines. Wasting money stupidly.

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Teaching Flow as a volunteer again... where is official trainers?? GHI technical service doesn't understand what they should do really.

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Cell sorting for forever.

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stuck with red blood cell membrane staining.

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Vaccines for the twenty-first century society: http://t.co/zFapcaM7

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Running out of antibodies during staining always sucks.. and it happened again.

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My manuscript is nearly there. No massive correction by supervisor!! Good sign for next week submission :)

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Before a conference season coming, http://t.co/UoZvvLwT, by SusanMcConnell,

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Are you using tumour mouse models? An useful article: http://t.co/bPdTUVwW

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Now editting photo for the uni microscopy competition. Completely one of my favourite hobby time!!

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Managing cancer and malaria expmts. I should be a RA rather than PhD. My brain isn't catching up..

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I really don't like B16F10 melanoma cells...

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Today's; 1) malaria DNA can be detected by flow cytometry. 2) cancer stem cells are really sticky, because...

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Chemokines control everyting?? Central memory T cells (CCR7+) vs Effector memory T cells (CCR7-).

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Hope for Malaria Vaccine, "First Results of Phase 3 Trial of RTS,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine in African Children" N Engl J Med, 18 Oct 2011.

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Today, another experiment of cancer cell adhesion to endothelial cells.

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Found DiI and DiD dye in the lab fridge-2. Now I can stain cells with colours equivalent to Alexa Fluor 594 and 647 !!!! How exciting.