Yesterday I did a protein purification from Xenopus (frog) egg extract. I know, I know...most of you are thinking ewwww. Thats gross. But I thought it was pretty cool to be able to take a specific kind of bead that binds a specific kind of sugar modification, and use it to pull out a subset of proteins that contain said sugar modification. Thinking about whats going on in my tubes on a molecular level is pretty damn rad (yes...I am a nerd). Anyway, I am now staining a gel to see whether I was successful, and thus, am quite inundated with the scent of acetic acid. mmmmmmm....delicious science:)