Most mornings this summer, Marina Milea arrived at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research building ready to juggle several experiments at once. While one set of samples incubated, she stained mouse tissue sections for immunohistochemical analysis, prepared to run a Western Blot gel, and checked in on an organoid culture. All this work, and more, was part of learning the complex workflows behind studying how cancer evolves over time in the Jacks Lab at MIT. For the rising senior, who is majoring in biology at the City College of New York (CCNY), the pace was exactly what she had hoped to find through MIT's Bernard S. and Sophie G. Gould MIT Summer Research Program in Biology (BSG-MSRP-Bio). "The techniques can be taught," she says. "The hardest part has been understanding the complex mouse and organoid models and why we're using them. Once you understand the biology behind the model, you can really interpret your results and think about how they might translate to human...
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