Wow… things have been quite busy in the lab! There are so many different techniques and skills that I am learning. This past week I learned how to do “immunocy to chemistry.” The basis on this technique is having a primary antibody tag a protein (in my case GPR109A) and then have a secondary antibody that binds
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This week I spent a lot of time conducting research and putting my findings into Excel spreadsheets. As a Communication student, I hadn’t had much experience working with Excel so it was a learning process for me. One part of my research involved making telephone calls to local businesses. This can be challenging! I was
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Before I started my internship at SAS, I had never heard of the term “big data.” By definition it means data of such volume, variety or velocity that an organization must move beyond its comfort zone technologically to derive intelligence for effective decisions. To put this in a college example: you have so much music, movies,
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