• Question: what is the best piece of work you have ever done??? (science wise)

    Asked by nickrichens to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 22 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Lorna Houlihan

      Lorna Houlihan answered on 22 Mar 2010:

      The nicest thing that I have done has been in the news recently
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8574891.stm
      I found genes that may help explain how our blood clots!

    • Photo: Chris Needham

      Chris Needham answered on 22 Mar 2010:

      A project learning gene networks in plants from lots of data.

      Published as a article in BMC Systems Biology with the title: From gene expression to gene regulatory networks in Arabidopsis thaliana. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/3/85

    • Photo: Kerstin Zechner

      Kerstin Zechner answered on 22 Mar 2010:

      Probably finding a protein that can help prevent the copying of RNA from DNA from stopping 🙂

    • Photo: Kay Penicud

      Kay Penicud answered on 23 Mar 2010:

      I showed that if you loose just one of two genes, you get cancer. If you loose them both, however, this protects against cancer. This should hopefully be really useful for drug targets.

    • Photo: Olivia Hibbitt

      Olivia Hibbitt answered on 23 Mar 2010:

      Hey nickrichens,

      the time I made a dry ice bomb and it shot an eppendorf clear across the lab!!! Actually I did a really cool experiment over christmas that improved my gene therapy by 1000….I’m serious with that number! I’ve just gotten news that I’ve been selected for a talk on this at a big international conference so that’s pretty cool!

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