“Q: What’s the best thing you’ve done as a scientist?” “A: To make a worm glow green and red at the same

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." Seriously? Why should I vote for you?

Asked by straycat to Kerstin on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: General.
- Kerstin Zechner answered on 17 Mar 2010:
  
  Yeah, seriously. 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.

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." Seriously? Why should I vote for you?