Entries from 2014-12-09 to 1 day

What's the difference between just the mixture of biomolecules and living cells?

I'm making experiments here in UCSF and sometimes remember Fujiwara-san, who was a mentor of BIOMOD Team Sendai in 2012 and 2013. He was very strict about not only experiments but also the management of the team (though I liked him a lot!)…

Cookie Protocol/ Incubation

On Saturday Sushmita (a roommate from India) and I made cookies :) As we are both scientists, she called the recipe 'protocol' and the procedure of leaving cookie dough in a fridge for an hour 'incubation' :P We tried staind glass cookies …

Moving to Hatena

First I used Medium as a blog to write about the life in SF and the U.S. But now I found that I was too lazy to continue it because it required pictures or photos every time you made a post. So I decided to move here. I'll use Hatena as a …

What's RCF?

Hey today I wonder what are the two abbreviations used in a centrifuge machine. One if RPM, revolution/rotation per minute and the other is RCF, relative centrifugal force. You might have heard the word RPM, and can easily guess what it me…