Today was our last day at the NIEHS, and it was definitely memorable. In the morning we met at the Keystone building to watch a project meeting. Different people would present projects or questions, and the audience of 20-30 people would pose questions about the structure of the procedure or the uniqueness of the study. The presentation that was most interesting was a member of the NIEHS who talked about adding e-cigs and hookahs to the RoC list for study, expressing how they were different than tobacco products. The crowd had some arguments about this, especially with the hookah, saying it was a tobacco related product. There seemed to be no real conclusion, just a series of questions and concerns asked to the presenter.
Next, we talked with the head of the Molecular pathology program, who described to us what that meant. These Molecular Pathology scientists, looked more at the genes of the samples and evaluated those, how the RNA or DNA pairs switched. This was an important difference to normal pathologists who go only far enough to look at the tissue and cells of the organism being studied. We talked to him for awhile, and he explained to us his background and asked us questions about school.
After this meeting, we headed down to the basement where we watched some of the pathologist take part in a Ping-Pong game. Underneath the facility is a library, and fitness room, with a small Ping-Pong table adjacent.
Our final activity was presenting the presentations we had made concerning the cell-phone modulated radio frequency radiations. I presented the method, results, and analysis from the rat study, showing what I had learned about cells and cancer tumors
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