I interviewed LaShawna Hanes, a research assistant from Lyon College. She keeps a personal journal on her samples of multidrug resistant tuberculosis because the research itself, will take years. LaShawna said she sketches pictures and paraphrase’s what happens during each experiment. She writes down the exact amount of each ingredient used and concentration of chemicals. She makes note of the results for that day, no matter how minuet, and makes recommendations at the bottom of the page. When handling samples she uses sterile instruments, labels, sharpie markers, and aprons. Since chemicals are involved, goggles and gloves are necessary. Scientific method is used when deciding which chemicals will have an adverse reaction, also when the samples
