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Asked by robbentley to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: Test methods.
Question: What is your favourite science experiment?
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Olivia Hibbitt answered on 17 Mar 2010:
hmmm….the ones that work??
At uni I did Anatomy and we did a lot of human dissection…..that is really interesting. I also got to do electron microscopy which allows you to look inside cells at actual organelles it’s really cool. Now my experiments are a bit more mundane looking at gene expression using glowing proteins is a big one….using drugs to make the genes glow brighter! I recently did quite a cool experiment which showed something absolutely amazing…..I’m going to talk at a conference at the end of the month about it…..I’m currently frantically trying to finish off experiments to prove that what I saw was real!!!
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Kay Penicud answered on 17 Mar 2010:
My favourite school science experiment was burning all sorts of metals in a bunsen burner and seeing what colours they went,
My favourite lab experiment I do at the moment is one I’ve nicknamed ‘the credit card’. i want to specifically take out one protein from a whole mix of cells (each cell has hundreds or thousands of different proteins). You can make the protein you want magnetic, then run your experiment through a magnetic strip really like a credit card reader that make the protein you want, but no others, stick to it. Very quick, very easy, lots of fun!
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Kerstin Zechner answered on 19 Mar 2010:
It’s probably PCR, which stands of polymerase chain reaction. This technique allows you to amplify really small quanities of DNA and is probably used in almost every research lab.
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Lorna Houlihan answered on 19 Mar 2010:
twins – how cool to measure how twins are alike because of genetics (they share lots of genes!, 100% if you are identical!!) and their environment as they grow up together! Do we have any twins in the audience?!
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