My life as a scientist
Hello future friends and fellow Steemates! My name is Mike, I am a graduate student of molecular biology and I would like to share with you a glimpse into my life, what I do and my blog--CryptoScience. First and foremost, I will share with you all my life and how I became interested in science and biology.
Me at the American Society of Cell Biologists Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.
Early days
My teenage days was kind of a dark time for me in that I ran around got into trouble, as many adolescents do, but I was spiraling down the wrong path. This changed when I found a mentor who taught me to believe in myself, and who also believed in me and told me that I had the potential to become a doctor one day. So I set out to learn and master everything that an aspiring student must learn to become a medical doctor--the trifecta of science: physics, chemistry and biology.
Looking through an older Olympus Microscope.
Research interests
During this great time of discovery, I found an interest in biological research and joined a stem cell research lab where we transform stem cells into cardiac cells for treatment of heart disease. My role in the lab is that of a graduate student and I perform various duties such as cell culture, immunohistochemistry and fluorescence microscopy; in this process we stain and analyze cells using high-powered microscopes. We also clone DNA using a thermocycler, which is essentially a "DNA copy-machine", a device that heats and cools the DNA in order to make additional copies. We do many other techniques, but these are the coolest by far and all that we have time to cover in this write-up.
Fig.1: Cardiac myocyte stained against cardiac troponin T (green). Nuclei are indicated by DAPI staining (blue). Image captured at 100x using an Olympus confocal microscope.
I must say we do some very bizarre things in the name of science--everything from parabotic conjugation (look it up), to somatic cell nuclear transformation, all the way to cloning organisms and even creating artificial wombs! What other bizarre things are we capable of? The answer is: anything you can dream of certainly can become a reality--maybe not in our lifetime, if it is too far fetched.
)What is CryptoScience?
This is where I transition into my CryptoScience Blog, a place where I will be discussing future innovations in the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence, the potential of blockchain technology to be integrated into modern biology, science and medicine--basically anything relating to science, technology and crypto! I am very excited to be a part of this new global movement: the digital currency revolution; and I will be breaking down the technical details and the complex nature of scientific innovation into easy to read blogs that I think could benefit the Steemit Community.
Thank you all for your time. It is my hopes to be an active part of this community, I think we can all benefit from each other in the days to come. If you'd like to find out more about science, technology and crypto, follow me on Steemit and twitter https://twitter.com/cryptoscientst
