This is the last week of the immersion term. As a student biomedical engineering, it is a superb experience to be with a doctor and observe how they interact with the patients and perform surgeries. It is also an awesome experience working in the lab trying to find a way to cease epilepsy using optogenetics technique.
This week, to assist the experiment, we also built an endoscope to image the neurons inside the brain in-vivo. We have 2 attempts by putting a fiber bundle into the mouse brain before without any success of imaging neurons. We may due to the limitation of the sensitivity of the camera or the insufficient laser intensity for fluorescence excitation. We changed the camera this week and we are thrilled to see some bright fluorescence from the mouse brain.
After all, New York City is a nice place to be in. It may not be as gorgeous as Ithaca. The food and the fun that I can have in the city is a what makes it memorable for me.
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