You can’t always get what you want
After many hours of passing cells, counting and replating cells (some stained with Cell Tracker Orange) Melissa and I followed Joel (another member of the lab) as he repeated a procedure for testing cell adhesion. With five trials and a history of success with a different cell type(moncytes) we thought that we would try our best to test our endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) for similar behavior. Sadly, we did not get results that we desired and we were forced to accept defeat. Although I wasn’t shocked by the results(then again I had nooo idea what I was looking for anwyay), I was disappointed by how unsuccessful we were. On the contrary, neither Melissa and Joel were not phased. I guess with time I will be able to accept this as a setback and not a failure.