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tailoring of a plaque assay

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Today I will inspect the new HeLa cells that I awoke yesterday, proceed with infecting 3T3 cells (RE: a plaque assay) to gain the titer of four different aliquots of the mCMV strain, & turn in my progress report.

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Plating 3T3 cells for a plaque assay

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Interferon Protection assay Day 3 {Inoculation}

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Yesterday (8/30/11) addition of 100ul PBL mIFN (interferon) {in a 5 fold serial dilution fashion} done in 1X DMEM + 10%FBS+PSG.
Today {8/31/11} plates (3) were subjected to 100uls of inoculum (EMCV in 1XDMEM+10%FBS+PSG)....



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The Interferon Protection Assay

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The drug company our lab works for wants to test their antibodies conjugated to IFNs for antiviral activity. My task is to understand how much antibody-IFN is needed to "cure" an organism from a viral infection (specifically viruses which causes...



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Tomorrow = a new day

First off I would like to start my first blog stating: this summer has been the most helpful (academic wise) than any other. I'm conducting undergraduate research in a virology laboratory at UCI. Its my first time exposed to the life of applied science and I am really enjoying it. My time is spent learning assay's, refining my techniques and...



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