Author: Ada Zwetlana

There’s a very specific kind of silence in a molecular biology lab; the silence right after you finish an extraction experiment and you’re waiting to know whether it actually worked. It’s not peaceful. It’s not calm. It’s the kind of silence where even the centrifuge seems to hold its breath.  Everything before this moment feels loud: the vortex, the pipette clicks, the mental arguments with buffers, the “why is this viscous […]