Macodrone
Why don't you believe that these people carry the gene for a reason and if more people who were genetically meant to die DID die than we'd progress as a species instead of trying to cure something which is obviously evolutionary and meant to keep population control.
Are you suggesting that my friend who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in his mid 20s is meant to die? Cause that's pretty callous. My father got lucky and survived testicular cancer in his early 30s but my girlfriend's mother did not survive her bout with breast cancer in recent years.
As for the thread itself…
When I was in research, the average day involved getting into the office and sitting in front of a computer for the entire day. Hacking away at various bits of Fortran and self-written C++ that modelled how sub-atomic particles would manifest in our experimental apparatus and comparing with actual data. Reading theory papers to be sure that subtle effects are being accounted for correctly and suchlike. Every now and again, I would be required to do a shift working on the experiment itself, either checking the quality of data (looking at control graphs in real-time) or monitoring the functioning of the apparatus and restarting misbehaving machinery.
So, what is the average day like for the lab mouse?