My HeLa cells are growing slowly. Very slowly. But that's okay, because they've reached the point where they've been passaged so many times that it kind of wears them out. Also, we stained the cells that we mummified earlier and it totally worked! But we forgot to freeze some of the virus-infected cells before we mummified them, so now we have to do it again. But this time I get to make the antibiotic media and dose the cells myself.

Anyways, when we stained the cells we had to rinse them in a bunch of stuff and then wrap them in foil. So they went from this:

To little miniature Ding Dongs:

Sure, they look adorable, but the sound of latex on aluminum is NOT fun. But the stain worked, and the some of the pictures that came out of it looked like they should be in a brochure trying to convince kids to go into science, so I'll try to get some of those pictures to put up when we stain this next batch.

I'll have to go in on the weekends in order to continue upping the dosage of the antibiotic. And I have to do math to figure out the proper volume of antibiotic to put in each well. Math with unit multipliers. Not going to lie, it's pretty intense.