Side-effects

Side-effects: this is a new word for my day-to-day use. The meaning is "efectos secundarios". I learnt it in my English class when we were discussing about the pill (Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth-control pill).

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My muscles are aching

Yesterday was my first day of gym and today all my muscles are aching!, from triceps, biceps and pectorals to cuadriceps and abductors. I started with mejoramiento fisico and tomorrow I'll repeat the same class in order to fight with the stiffness and I'll see how it goes. I'll leave body-pump classes for the next week, it may be quite hard for me to start them right now.

August plenty of activities

English conversation classes and the gym are my new entertainments for this summer month. As I told in the previous entry, I'll be attending English classes Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 pm to 8:00 during the whole month and the rest of the week days I'll try to go to the gym and enjoying my dear classes of body-pump, mejoramiento físico, pilates.., and this year classes of aero-funky too! it sounds great, although I don't know how exactly those classes are..., feel curiosity.
Besides, I have to take advantage of my swimming pool and work hard at work to finish succesfully some experiments and focus on my dea presentation.
Tomorrow I'm going to Orhuela, where I expect to meet my friends and visit the beach.
As I said in the title, month plenty of activities then

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English converstation course

After a carefully thinking I've practically made up my mind: I'm going to my English level test tomorrow evening and if my level is good enough for the conversation course I'll be attending my first class just after the test. The course may be interesting and I consider that it will help me a lot when I have to deal with my eoi oral exal, which is due on September the second.

Deeping in though (meditation or reflection)

Time of reflections..., all kind of. Theres's something that has always been part of my life: constant thinking. When my life becomes calm and a bit monotonous I can't avoid thinking whether this is the right place for me to stay or not and that makes me feel worried.

Working on a new technique based on FRET

This is a quite scientific entry. In our lab we are trying to optimize a technique to detect colocalization and be sure that the colocalization do exist when you work on immnunocytochemistry. The technique is based on FRET. Here you are the definition of FRET (copy-paste from Babu et al., 2003):

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)* is a distance dependent physical process by which energy is transferred nonradiatively from an excited molecular fluorophore (the donor) to another fluorophore (the acceptor) by means of intermolecular long-range dipole–dipole coupling.

If FRET occurs, the donor channel signal will be quenched and the acceptor channel signal
will be sensitized or increased (Herman, 1998). With FRET microscopic imaging, not only colocalization of the donorand acceptor-labeled probes within 0.09 micres2 can be seen, but molecular associations at close distances can be verified.

The image is an example of FRET in live mouse pituitary cells. The donor (A), the uncorrected
FRET (B), and processed FRET (C) images and their respective histograms (D, E, and F) representing the signal strength of the selected protein (Elangovan et al., 2003.)