Starting to get practical...
Hi,
I went to the anatomy department on Thursday to get an idea of what the chick embryos I will be using for my project look like and how to get to them inside the eggs. I practised removing the blunt end of eggs and the membranes underneath to see the developing chicks. Removing the covering membranes involves staining them with a blue dye and peeling them off carefully with sharp forceps. This is done under a microscope as the embryos are only a few millimetres long and are easily damaged. The embryos I saw were 3 or 4 days old and already had beating hearts and the beginnings of blood vessels developing.
I talked to my supervisor about possible solutions for the problem that my project addresses and after helping me to see the most likely possibility he sent me away to think about it more and draw some diagrams, since the 3D nature of the complex embryonic folding makes it hard to describe in words. On Tuesday I will go back to discuss my findings with him and to see some more embryos and learn more practical techniques.
The 2nd year medics at my college have been divided into 2 groups of four, each of which has been assigned a tutor to keep an eye on our work. Yesterday I had a meeting with my tutor, to make sure my project was progressing and that I was aware of what else is involved in the FHS course. He also suggested we find a book related to our Options to read over the long vacation, and informed us that we will probably be set a collection (college exam) at the start of next term, possibly on the critical analysis od a scientific paper. We have been given a list of possible titles (ones which were used last year) for our extended essays, which we can use or come up with our own. While it is interesting to start to think about this now, choices don't actually have to be made until next term, when we will find supervisors for our essays.
Now I'm off for an afternoon of fun and games with the KEEN outdoor sports session, All Sorts.
Bye bye.
I went to the anatomy department on Thursday to get an idea of what the chick embryos I will be using for my project look like and how to get to them inside the eggs. I practised removing the blunt end of eggs and the membranes underneath to see the developing chicks. Removing the covering membranes involves staining them with a blue dye and peeling them off carefully with sharp forceps. This is done under a microscope as the embryos are only a few millimetres long and are easily damaged. The embryos I saw were 3 or 4 days old and already had beating hearts and the beginnings of blood vessels developing.
I talked to my supervisor about possible solutions for the problem that my project addresses and after helping me to see the most likely possibility he sent me away to think about it more and draw some diagrams, since the 3D nature of the complex embryonic folding makes it hard to describe in words. On Tuesday I will go back to discuss my findings with him and to see some more embryos and learn more practical techniques.
The 2nd year medics at my college have been divided into 2 groups of four, each of which has been assigned a tutor to keep an eye on our work. Yesterday I had a meeting with my tutor, to make sure my project was progressing and that I was aware of what else is involved in the FHS course. He also suggested we find a book related to our Options to read over the long vacation, and informed us that we will probably be set a collection (college exam) at the start of next term, possibly on the critical analysis od a scientific paper. We have been given a list of possible titles (ones which were used last year) for our extended essays, which we can use or come up with our own. While it is interesting to start to think about this now, choices don't actually have to be made until next term, when we will find supervisors for our essays.
Now I'm off for an afternoon of fun and games with the KEEN outdoor sports session, All Sorts.
Bye bye.
posted by Jane Davis @ 3:50 AM
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