I thought I’d just share this with you guys. So the work I did for the past year mainly involv

I thought I’d just share this with you guys. So the work I did for the past year mainly involved using nanoparticles to deliver genes in the brain. To test the efficaciousness of our therapy, we used a rat brain tumor model to deliver different types of genes. One way to correctly see if our treatment was working was by using a reporter gene (GFP in this case) to check how well the particles were transfecting the cells. I thought it would be fun to compare the conventional treatment (on the left) with our treatment (on the right, with blue showing the relative tumor) using 3D printing! I wasn’t able to get a hold of a two-tone printer, so I painted the two colors… Anyways, small things like this always excite me! It’s fun to think about different ways you can display your data and definitely having something more tangible like this helps put the science you do in perspective.  -- source link

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