What elite sport prepared me for in the lab — and what it didn’t

Javier Nion Fieira found that his experiences in elite sport were easier to analyse and process than those in the laboratory. Credit: Diego Blanco & Jonathan Gurr At 2 a.m. on a frosty February morning, I started what I hoped would be the first big experiment of my PhD-dissertation project: collecting eight lung samples from mice and preparing them for flow cytometry. …