• Question: Have you (personally) learned or discovered anything important in science?

    Asked by daviessem to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 25 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Olivia Hibbitt

      Olivia Hibbitt answered on 25 Mar 2010:

      Hey daveissem,

      over christmas I discovered that reducing the amount of a specific protein in the liver using RNAi makes my gene therapy work 1000 times better……that’s actually the number, I’m not exaggerating! It’s such an exciting result I’ve been invited to speak at two conferences about it!

    • Photo: Kerstin Zechner

      Kerstin Zechner answered on 25 Mar 2010:

      I guess it depends what you define as important. For me and other people working in my field, I have discovered one important thing. I discovered that a process known as splicing can prevent the copying of RNA (a molecule similar to DNA and required to the make protein corresponding to the DNA of a gene) from DNA from stopping.

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