• Question: Q- What\'s the best thing you\'ve done as a scientist? A- To make a worm glow green and red at the same time. Is this honestly the best thing you have done as a scientist?

    Asked by hello to Kerstin on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Kerstin Zechner answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      Hey, I just answered the same question to straycat:
      Not all researchers are involved in studying human cells or human diseases. A lot of processes that go on in cells are very similar in many animals. So the process I look at, copying of DNA to RNA, is more or less the same in worms and humans. By making the worm glow red and green at the same time, I could show that a certain protein can have an effect on the copying of DNA to RNA, which is essential for all genes to be expressed. In may not be as fancy as research in humans, but it’s still important to know what’s going on.

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