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Asked by siobhanb to Jen, Mel, Stef on 21 Mar 2013.
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Melissa Brereton answered on 21 Mar 2013:
Today? Well I have had a busy morning but I have been mainly preparing things for a big experiment I am doing tomorrow to try and see if I can the pancreas shine green!
Research in general can be a very slow process where you have to set things up or alter things to make them work. I have been working in my lab for 18 months and only now am I managing to get exciting results. The thing with science is that if you manage to answer one question, it always ends up with another 20 questions needing to be answered. But this is what is fun about it!
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Jennifer Paxton answered on 21 Mar 2013:
I’ve done quite a bit in my field, but I have the advantage that Tissue Engineering is quite a new subject so there are still lots of interesting things that we can find out and report on.
We are still very far away from the ultimate goal of producing tissues that can be implanted into humans though, but I hope to get there at some stage in my career.
Maybe some of you will become Tissue Engineers too and make this happen?!
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Stefan Piatek answered on 22 Mar 2013:
Overall I’m still quite early on in this project. I’ve done about 5 months and have another 3 years or so to go! But I’ve done a couple different things before too, some research for a year, other ones were about 5 months each.
The really great thing about science is that usually once you discover something, you have more questions about how it works, so you can keep on going. It’s like exploring a new land, you might find where the river ends up, but then there’s a whole shore that you can map out, you hope that your mapping helps people, in my case people with asthma!
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