This week, we started our stem cell project. We kicked it off by writing a preliminary introduction and methods in, and looking into what we want to do. I thought that when we saw the cells under the microscope, it was hella cool. The differentiation was a really interesting. We wanted to answer the question, "What do stem cells do to cancer cell growth?" We came about this question in a really roundabout way. From the beginning, we knew that we were going to work with cancer, but we didn't know what we wanted to do in particular. Then, in class, we did a lesson on the properties of stem cells. After that, we thought it would be interesting to see how the regenerative capabilities of stem cells interacted with the growth of cancer cells. The purpose of our project is to determine the effect of stem cells have on cancerous growths. My personal goals for this project are to develop a better sense of focus, and try to improve my scientific analyzation skills. I noticed last semester that I had lots of problems focusing on work if I was thinking about the scope of the project, or distracted by other problems I wanted to fix. This year, I want to aim to fix that in order to get better results in our experiment. I also wanted to improve my analyzing skills when I'm looking at scientific data/ evidence. I feel like I can do a lot better in my descriptions, and I could definitely pick up more details than what I currently do. ***EDIT*** Attached here is our work so far Introduction Research Proposal
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