Lab Life: Beyond Experiments and Failures

Blotting My Patience Patience is often misunderstood. Many see it as passive waiting, a quiet endurance of time. But real patience is different. It is active—it is persistence without frustration, resilience without resentment. It is the ability to try, fail, and try again, believing that effort, no matter how exhausting, will one day be rewarded. I never truly understood patience until I encountered Western blotting . It has been my greatest teacher in all the experiments I have performed. It is a delicate process, an intricate balance of technique and trust. You begin with invisible proteins, carefully separated on a gel, hoping they will obediently transfer onto a membrane. Then comes the waiting—hours of incubation, endless washes, and the careful addition of antibodies meant to recognize their perfect match. A platonic relationship between protein and antibody, built on specificity and faith. And then comes the moment of truth. I stand before the imaging system, my heart p...

Curiosity: The City of Achievers! There is a city unlike any other—the city that is not found on any map yet open to all who seek it. It has no defined borders, fixed skyline, or sparkling sign boards for paths leading in or out. This is Curiosity , the city of dreamers, thinkers, and explorers. A place where every street leads to a question, every doorway opens to a possibility, and every traveler is guided by an insatiable desire to know more. I have lived in this city for as long as I can remember. My earliest memories are of asking “Why?” and “How?”—small questions that led to bigger ones, like bricks laid one after another to build my path. But here, there is no final arrival—only deeper exploration, more layers to uncover, more truths waiting to be revealed. In this city, every scientist, artist, writer, and innovator who walks these streets knows the feeling of tug-of-war in their mind that refuses to let go until they chase it down. Curiosity is not a passive trait; it is...

  The Silent Symphony of the Unseen: The Art of Noticing Scientific discoveries rarely announce themselves with grandeur. They arrive not with fanfare but as whispers, waiting for someone to listen. A stray observation, a dismissed anomaly, an overlooked pattern—the quiet notes of discovery, fragments of a silent symphony playing around us. The real question is: Are we pausing long enough to hear them? History is filled with breakthroughs that emerged not from grand theories but from the simple act of noticing. In 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find an unexpected guest in his petri dish: a mold killing off bacteria. It may have seemed like a mere accident, a mess. Yet, driven by curiosity, he took a closer look—and that single moment of attention led to the discovery of penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic, revolutionizing medicine forever. A century earlier in Italy, Luigi Galvani noticed something strange while dissecting a frog. When his metal scalpe...