THERE IS A GOD!

There is a God, and he loves me!! Just when a turnaround seemed impossible, it happened. All those hours spent counting interneurons in my knock out mouse embryos and testing the statistical significance of trends in the numbers, may indeed bear fruit yet. Someone once told me that roughly 95 % of all data generated in basic science laboratories is left unreported. That may be because somebody beats you to it, or that the data just don't form a story that people want to hear. In rare cases, it may be because of inter-lab politics. I was about to write a eulogy for one such piece of data I painstakingly collected, but easter saw its resurrection. It may just see the light of day, as a tiny graph in a paper. A figure thats costs us 600 dollars to get published :(

I am beginning to recollect what its like to discover something. To know something nobody else in this world knows (hopefully). To know that I helped push back the boundary of darkness even if it was by mere inches. To know that one day, if we can treat paraplegics with cultured motor neurons, someone may feel the need to induce repressors of the tetramer prompted by my discovery. I know... seems really small in the scheme of things. One small step for mankind.