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Thread ID: 110297 2010-06-11 02:28:00 Exam today GameJunkie (72) PC World Chat
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1109046 2010-06-14 02:34:00 Uhm, mine is a research dissertation. Looking at incorporating drugs into nanoparticles, which will be delivered to the brain for therapeutic release.

Mine doesn't involve the use of spectroscopy technology.

Just came back from the lab this morning. Some of the samples have not been completely freeze-dried. Will have to repeat the drying process tomorrow.

Cool..I did a bit of drug cancer research/radio chemistry with sea extracts back then - mainly doing reflux/synthesis/rotary evaps/HPLC/GLC/Chromotography/etc (with Prof "Con" Cambie and I think Charmain O'Connor (I thinks that's the name)....

But got first job testing soils, then inks, then part time lab demo's at Auckland Uni.
kahawai chaser (3545)
1109047 2010-06-14 03:41:00 Nice history there, k_c.

Rotary evaporator is a no-no for the students as one of the members in our team broke the rubber band of the $100,000 ultracentrifugation machine the other day, causing them to impose this limit on us.

HPLC/GLC.... Gosh, I dread to use the chromatography machines. :D
Renmoo (66)
1109048 2010-06-14 05:41:00 Nice history there, k_c.

Rotary evaporator is a no-no for the students as one of the members in our team broke the rubber band of the $100,000 ultracentrifugation machine the other day, causing them to impose this limit on us.

HPLC/GLC.... Gosh, I dread to use the chromatography machines. :D

Yeah...I always dreaded using rotary evaps, particularly if the extracts dried out too much, or for water cooled evaps, drying out, as sometimes too much cleaning. As for HPLC/GLC, in theory easy to understand, but the apparatus have always been a bit complex, to try accurately isolate various chemical groups for identification.
kahawai chaser (3545)
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