Houston, we have RESULTS!

After a grueling two hours spent toiling in an empty lab on a Saturday morning, we have our first actual, tangible, for-real results.

Well, we don't actually know what is in our samples and what kind of bacterial critter it came from, but we know we have DNA. We have the concentration of DNA in our samples. We have actual numbers! That means that if everything else fails, we can write something about the very low DNA content, what that means, and why it is this way.

Also: our mentor did a test run on the E. coli and our samples to see if we were messing it up because we somehow did something wrong, and it came up negative. So that means there is something wrong in the process somewhere and 1) it's not our fault, 2) that means we can include that in the results section if nothing else works.

I love science. Even if it doesn't work, you can still get an A-worthy paper out of it.