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Asked by willaminaw to Jen, Mel, Stef on 21 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by anon-30036.
Question: have you made up an experiment? if so which is the one you think explains science the most?
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Melissa Brereton answered on 21 Mar 2013:
We make up experiments everyday! We usually read what experiments other people have done and think whether we can do the same thing to help answer our questions.
The most recent experiment I have done was pretty cool and I think it explains some of the problems that happen in diabetes. I have found that in diabetes, the cells in your pancreas that release the hormones insulin and glucagon change (these hormones help keep your blood sugar within normal levels) and this explains why the blood sugar stays too high. I have now shown than if you artifically make the blood sugar levels normal by giving drugs, these changes are reversible. So this means that if you give patients with diabetes this drug, some of the damages can be reversed and help improve their symptoms. Pretty cool huh?
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Jennifer Paxton answered on 21 Mar 2013:
Oh loads! We have to think up new experiments to do everyday.
My favourite experiment was one where I showed that I could create an artifical interface (or join) between engineered bone and engineered ligament. This join was actually stronger than the engineered tissue which is a really big deal when you are looking at the joins between tissues. I did a happy dance in the lab that day and I didn’t care who saw me haha 🙂
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Stefan Piatek answered on 21 Mar 2013:
As Mel and Jen have said, every day is generally a new experiment.
A couple years ago was a part of a team who set up a new system that shone a laser onto a tiny cell and used the readings from that to work out how proteins moved in the cell. That was really exciting to be a part of that and what we discovered ended up being a really cool area to go into.
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