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Back when I was a pre-med, my first summer research internship was in a cancer lab. After a couple of weeks of cell culture and autoclaving stuff, they let me s
by poidos 5y ago
Back when I was a pre-med, my first summer research internship was in a cancer lab. After a couple of weeks of cell culture and autoclaving stuff, they let me start working with the mice. They were inducing lung cancer in them to test some novel compound that was supposed to cure the cancer. Every day, I'd have to go to the mice room, swap in fresh water and food, and then bag all the dead mice individually in rubber gloves, and leave them on my supervisor's desk. Really opened my eyes.
- rajin444 5y agoI've always found some solace in not being wasteful. In theory we're working towards a better future - harming animals now will result in world with no harm for an infinite number of descendants later. This is more or less "do the ends justify the means", but we live in a zero sum universe, so every action we take has to answer this question (if I eat this food, somebody else can't eat it). It's a matter of determining what we think justifies the cost.
- nonameiguess 5y agoI was originally a biology in major in college. In Cell Bio, we had a lab that involved attempting to examine one of the circulatory subsystems of a limpet, but in vivo, so the idea was to chemically paralyze it and then dissect while it was still alive. I am certain to this day that I jacked it up somehow, because that poor limpet was absolutely not paralyzed and was squirming the entire time I was trying to cut it open. This will be seared into my memory for the rest of my life and I never took another biology class after that, only completing a minor instead.
- poidos 5y agoThat sounds horrible. :(