Week 3

This week we had a large takedown. We had to kill 20 mice and remove their spleens, bone marrow, and other organs. My job was to take the removed spleens and smash them in ACK extracting white blood cells while killing red blood cells. We then had to dilute and stain the extracted cells and count them. Other than that the week was just helping whoever out here or there. I also learned to kill red blood cells with water by making a hypotonic solution so that they would take in so much water they would explode.