The joys and woes of research.
The Joys Of My Research
It’s almost done! From the first day in my lab, I knew what my research project was and how to conduct it. I’ve leachated all my plates and this project will be completely done with next week. I’m just waiting until next Thursday so I can plate my last set of R2Aagar 10 day. Oh the joys of this project. This research project has really taught me how to be resilient and patient as a person and most importantly, love and enjoy ‘research’.
The Woes Of My Research
Well… I don’t really have any major woes other than the fact that this Howard Hughes Precollege Program is slowly ending, meaning this research project will be over soon too. I very much enjoy coming in the morning and checking on my E.coli, making trips to the autoclave, and plating agar plates. If I did have a tiny little complain about this project, it would be that none of my nanoproducts samples leachated nanosilver! So all my plates that I did with nanosilver products, such as the teddy bear or lotion, I didn’t get any zone of inhibition. Are these companies false advertizing? LIARS!
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Kirby-Bauer plating method on teddy bear skin on R2A agar with E.coli K12. The white streaks are the E.coli bacteria and as you can see, there is absolutely no zone of inhibition.
E.coli 1mg/L AgNO3 on LB agar. You can see
a slight zone of inhibition.
Zone of inhibition can be measured by a caliber. It can measure the inhibition more accurately than a ruler.
