Things have gotten (even more) interesting at work
Things have been very busy for the last few weeks. I've had too much going on to maintain a blog responsibly, so I'll try to compromise by maintaining a blog irresponsibly. Here is a poorly composed report of what I've been up to. Work: Work has gotten very stimulating. As the lab manager of a stem cell research lab, I've found my work to be fulfilling for the entire time I've been working at Cedars-Sinai. We study diseases by collecting blood from patients with a disorder, then modifying the blood cells so they revert back into the stem cells we all grow out of. It's the same person's cells, but now we've deaged them to 9 months before the person was born. We can then try to grow them into cells like the ones in the person today: heart cells, brain cells, kidney cells, whatever. Which has several big applications. 1) Cloning a part of a person could let us make rejection-free replacement organs. Not DONOR organs, but a factory-fresh re