Back in Taipei, Running chemical treatments

We hit the road to return back to Taipei, and on the way back to the hotel we stopped at the chocolate factory. It didn't have as much chocolate as I was expecting. However they give you a 100 dollar voucher, so that was nice because it was almost like I got two pieces of chocolate for free. 


Top chocolate is filled with a passion fruit paste, and the second one in the picture is hazel nut. 

Chocolate with alcohol in them. I tried the baileys one, and It wasn't bad, but the more and more I try alcoholic things here, the more  realize I don't like it. 

Here are the samples we brought back from Taichung. Some in the vials and some in the eppendorf tubes. We used Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as the solvent to dilute the samples. We had to do some calculations in order to figure out how much DMSO to add to each vial. This math included using the weight of the sample that we collected, divided by 300 for the molecular weight. Then divide that answer by 100 which would give us the liters of the sample which we multiply by 10^6 so we can determine the amount of micro liters we would need in order to do our chemical treatment on the next set of Zebra fish embryos. 

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