Question: What is your most effective test method? and why is this you most effective test method? How do you carry out your most effective test method?

Kay Penicud answered on 19 Mar 2010:

Mine is called immunoflouresence. First of all I’ll spend two days turning off specific genes in the cancer cells. Then once thats done, I’ll add chemicals to the cells to damage their DNA. Then, I spent two days staining the different parts of the DNA and things in the cell that repair the proteins differnt colours. Finally, I look at the cells (in their multi-coloured glory!) under a microscope to see how well they are repairing their DNA (and therefore if the genes I turned off at the beginning are needed to repair the DNA).

It is so effective as you can visualise a real biological process as it happens!