Sunday, April 29, 2012

Trojan Horse

We're almost at the end.


A couple weeks left and this journey has almost ended, instead of panicking, being a neurotic mess studying for the Organic Chemistry cumulative final, I find myself working on a paper that will be a contribution to a Wikipedia article, ours will be on the "Trojan Horse", and no, not the wooden one. Here's a sneak peek! 

Genentech’s method of disguising and transporting the therapeutic antibody by attaching it to a receptor-mediated transcytosis activator has been referred to as the “Trojan Horse method.

Finally, science that'll contribute to real life, right now.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Советский Союз

Feeling like a building in a war zone, they're all crushing and falling around me as I stand there, untouched, waiting for one of their falls to take me down with them. Where I stand, I don't believe I belong. They're all collapsing on themselves, but all that I'm waiting for that oblique fall, that takes me down with them. 

As you might've guessed, this scene did not take place in Denmark, rather, it is used as a place of longing. Instead, I am speaking of a place that bears the emotional duo of belongingness and aggravation. A land under former soviet rule, Russia.

2 weeks spent and a possibility of more to come as a Russian official took me off my flight. I do come with good news, as I write to you from Copenhagen.
Kuskovo Church and Bell Tower