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Nickel and Cobalt Coexposure
Summer 2011
Eshan Patel '13 and Victoria Ruff '14 are spending the summer working with Assistant Professor of Biology Mindy Reynolds researching the cytotoxic, genotoxic, and mutagenic effects of coexposure to nickel and cobalt.
Watch video or enlarge photos by Shane Brill '03.
Eshan Patel '13 carefully weighs out nickel chloride in preparation for an experiment.
Nickel chloride is measured.
Dr. Mindy Reynolds, Eshan Patel '13, and Jimmy Comotto '14 examine the results of a western blot.
Victoria Ruff '14 adds media containing nickel chloride and cobalt chloride to her cells before returning them to the incubator.
The cells are returned to the incubator.
Victoria explains her latest result to Dr. Reynolds.
Victoria checks the confluency of her cells before she seeds them for an experiment to expose them to metals.
Victoria adjusts the cells under the microscope.