Typical cancer scientist day.

Boss emails me:

Hey can’t make the 3:30 meeting today.  I’m in Arizona at the H&N conference. I’m meeting a guy in 20 minutes can you write me up a primer on as many different ways as you can find of measuring intracellular iron in tumors in the next 15 minutes?  

Insanely fast start searching pubmed and downloading journal articles, call histopath, call the Flow lab at NCI, read two articles, make a spreadsheet covering suppliers and prices, bang out 2 pages covering 5 methods, email it, wipe sweat off brow.

Boss emails back:

neat. weather’s great!