Dear friend to get straight to the point here is that yes you can get into a masters course although i think you will have to exclude yourself from the top 20 universities in the UK I have known several people who have got designated degrees and went on to do masters. Think of it like this universites need money so when near the start of term they have places to fill they will look at applications that were placed at the end of the list due to bad results so that's were you come in. So from this you may hear from instituttions perhaps 2 or 3 weeks before the start of the course but apply early and try to get in touch with the course leader to outline your determination and that you had problems during that time and would like to make up for it!! Good luck!

My project is about nanoparticle potentiol as an alternative adjuvant for vaccines. I want to see if they can induce nitric oxide generation using murine J774a1 MURINE macrophages using the griess reaction assay. My positive controls are the treatement with the macrophages with bacterial LPS of salmonella typhimurium I do get readings for it but it's painfully low but I do know now that these nanoparticles do not induce this factor it just makes it difficult when I have no positive control for comparision!

Hmmmm yes you are correct I guess supervisors don't expect as much from a masters student compared to a PH d student my supervisor is quite young and when she was demonstrating some assays had some problems herself:P . Wow cell culture problems affecting more than one person!!! did you find the source of the problem?

Masters science project destroying confidence
I posted this on the wrong section so some of you may see this somewhere.I love all aspects of lab work even the litrature search and writing it up, before the start of the project I was beeming with enthusiasm. It's a relative new area of biomedical science with no concrete findings hoping to get good results to supplement my excellent marks in my modules credits and perhaps maybe even get a publication things seemed to be looking up . Now I dread going to the lab since everything I am doing just does not seem to be working EVEN THE POSITIVE CONTROLS! no matter how hard I troubleshoot and it's soul destroying!!!! I get to the lab at 9 leave when i have to at 5 with nothing to show for my efforts i am scared now that I may have let my supervisor down who picked several students ahead of me to do this project and worse still myself and family since It may cost me that distinction. I just set up another assay so hopefully I will get some readings.Has any other science student encountered the same problem??????

I love all aspects of lab work even the litrature search and writing it up, before the start of the project I was beeming with enthusiasm since it's a relative new area of biomedical science with no concrete findings hoping perhaps to get a good results to supplement my excellent marks in my modules credits and perhaps maybe even get a publication things seemed to be looking up for a good MSc . Now I dread going to the lab since everything I am doing just does not seem to be working EVEN THE POSITIVE CONTROLS! no matter how hard I troubleshoot and it's soul destroying!!!! I get to the lab at 9 leave when i have to at 5 with nothing to show for my efforts i am scared now that I may have let my supervisor down who picked several candates ahead of me to do this project and worse still myself and family since It may cost me that distinction. I just set up another assay so hopefully I will get some readings.Has any other science student encountered the same problem??????