New Project..... woo hoooo!!!!

This week, I decided to take on a new project. I had been feeling for the past few weeks that I have been following people around like sheep. This is perfectly natural I guess, because I have to learn from someone and that requires a certain amount of following. But I started to get a little frustrated and felt like I needed to do my own work! So when the opportunity was presented I didn't let it pass! My new project involves finding the promoter for hENT2 (a human nucleoside transporter) and cloning it. Ultimately whatever I find may be beneficial in the treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. The project was started a few years ago and abandoned because of newer projects. In any case, I am doing this project on my own (although the bulk of the important information was there prior to my arrival) and I'm very excited about it. I think that I have found one of two things that I will need before the actual cloning. Apparently that is pretty impressive seeing as I did it in a day and I have been congratulated..... although I don't want to get tooo happy before the final results come because as I have come to learn.. it may seem good today and give a totally different result tomorrow. Science can get a little tedious, but I'm learning to be patient. (and that's a haard thing for me). I wait with baited breath.