• Question: what's the most exciting experiment you've done?

    Asked by to Amy, Anita, Daryl, Nimesh, Sandra on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Anita Thomas

      Anita Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      That’s a hard question to answer. I kind of get excited by my experiments most of the time! So the most exciting experiment is the one that will answer my current question!

      One of my current questions that we’re in the middle of answering is if we can repair a damaged heart. We are covering a patch with stem cells and then inserting them into the pulmonary artery between the heart and the lungs (our next experiments will be repairing a hole in the heart itself). The reason for doing our experiments is that we want to make a patch that will grow, so that children with holes in their heart won’t have do have repeated operations every couple of years.

    • Photo: Nimesh Mistry

      Nimesh Mistry answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      The first time I ever made a compound that was being sent off to be tested for it’s effects was amazing. It wasn’t so much the chemistry I used to make it but it was the 1st time in my life I’d made a compound that was going to be used for something. At university, I’d made lots of compounds as part of my training but they weren’t used for anything. This made what I was doing much more exciting.

    • Photo: Sandra Chiwanza

      Sandra Chiwanza answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      My most exciting experiment was cloning a particular gene sequence into the DNA of another cell. I did this for my undergraduate honour’s degree.
      The aim of the experiment was on trying to find out what chemicals or molecules will be able to replace a faulty gene that cause cancer of the kidney in children. So, the cloned gene sequence would replace the faulty genes and we would then use molecules to switch on the new one and see if would be able to function properly. So, the chemicals which were able to work on the new gene will allow us to be able to repair and cure this particular cancer, eventually that is.

    • Photo: Amy Monaghan

      Amy Monaghan answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      I used lasers to scan mouse arteries in my undergraduate degree. That was really cool! The scanner was called a laser doppler scanner and I was examining how the vessels in their legs grow in response to steroids to see if they could be used in diabetes.

    • Photo: Daryl Jones

      Daryl Jones answered on 26 Jun 2014:


      Hey hattiewiggins

      I did a really cool experiment where we made a drug for mad cow disease, and when we tested it in mice, it stopped them from getting ill! SO cool 🙂

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