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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Here Then Gone

   Oh, evanescent spring, where art thou? It had arrived days ago like a gift, remember? Crocus rising, song birds, warm breezes wafting through screen doors, begging visions of bare legs, short skirts, and painted toe nails. Forget it Master. It's gone. A frigid Nor'easter slipped in during the night and snatched her away screaming. Damn Cleveland weather sure is finicky.

   Get a load of that salad up there, willya? And that was merely the antipasto, N followed it up with a to-die-for spinach and cheese ravioli. Lucy and I hung around and begged the dinner guests; we got away with a few schnibbles of Pancetta, and that was it.

   What else is going on with us? Thanks for asking. It was a challenging week that's for sure. N battled bureaucracy at work and Master continues to struggle with a collaborator who won't collaborate. The project goal is to discover possible biomarkers for colon cancer which might have a clinical application in prognosing a patient's chances for progressing to more advanced stages of cancer. A biomarker is nothing more than a protein or small molecule that is up or down regulated in cancerous versus normal tissue. Modern chromatographic methods combined with mass spectrometry can identify this kind of biological variation and quantify it. It's all the rage in proteomic science, and would make for a dandy dissertation with potential for at least two nice publications in high impact journals, but without samples one can't begin!

   In the meantime, we dream about spring time in the desert and await her return here in our fair city of Cleveland.


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