Rabies and Research
I lazed around on Tuesday, having justified it because of my illness.
But I still had to go to my two jobs... so it would have been better if I'd've gone to work earlier. I think I was still at J&J after 9 pm.
Research is humming along, with an occasional real or imagined screech. I made my circles of DNA containing bovine papilloma virus genes, and I transferred them to another kind of E. coli. Now I'm trying to get them into avirulent Listeria monocytogenes, which will (hopefully) be the actual vaccine vector.
On the subject of vaccines, I think I'm going to get a series of rabies vaccinations in the near future. It worries me a bit — some people have (pretty bad?) reactions to it. But I guess it's worth the risk, since I may encounter an undiagnosed, drooling, rabid cow some day, stick my arm down its throat to check for foreign objects, and end up infected with the rabies virus. Post-infection treatment is much more risky than prophylactic measures.
School starts on Monday — whoopee!
But I still had to go to my two jobs... so it would have been better if I'd've gone to work earlier. I think I was still at J&J after 9 pm.
Research is humming along, with an occasional real or imagined screech. I made my circles of DNA containing bovine papilloma virus genes, and I transferred them to another kind of E. coli. Now I'm trying to get them into avirulent Listeria monocytogenes, which will (hopefully) be the actual vaccine vector.
On the subject of vaccines, I think I'm going to get a series of rabies vaccinations in the near future. It worries me a bit — some people have (pretty bad?) reactions to it. But I guess it's worth the risk, since I may encounter an undiagnosed, drooling, rabid cow some day, stick my arm down its throat to check for foreign objects, and end up infected with the rabies virus. Post-infection treatment is much more risky than prophylactic measures.
School starts on Monday — whoopee!
posted by Claire at 18:05
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