On this fine day, I really got to learn about the application of nano science in medicine. We first visited the chemistry lab where they were working on caner research and then Dr. Rome lectured to us.
I found the chemistry lab visit to be interesting. Although I did not like chemistry too much in school, this chemistry got my attention. At one point, they showed us this plastic cylinder with a pinkish fluid in it. It looked like a regular solution with some type of dye in it. The pinkish colored dye was an indicator to make sure the pH was around 7.2. I was surprised to learn that that innocent plastic thing held millions of caner cells in solution. It was so unassuming.
This is a defromed looking cancer cell.
This is another odd looking cancer cell
I know it is kind of odd to lable something in a science lad with such lyrical terms, but the solution of cells was ominous. It flowed as if it held a secret. And I found out those cells did have a secret to tell. The lab person said that these cells were of breast cancer from a lady who died ten years ago– and yet they were still growing an reproducing. I imagined and personified the cancer cells as a beast who was not stipping. It was so erie to realized that unlike normal cells, these cancer cells continue to reporduce ten years after already destroying a life. My feelings enhanced when I saw the cells up close through a microscope. They looked like messed up cells I thought, because they were all spikey and deformed.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_breast_cancer_5.asp
http://breastcancer.about.com/od/cancerfightingfoods/a/cancer_sugar_myth.htm
http://biomedx.com/microscopes/rrintro/rr1.html
http://graemebird.wordpress.com/2006/07/10/good-and-bad-uses-of-personification-in-science/
http://www.alternative-cancer.net/Cell_photos.htm
