• Question: how many succesful experiments have you done

    Asked by 329eura23 to Alex, Ali, Kerry on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      Loads and loads! Although in my line of work it takes quite a few successful experiments to collect enough data to be able to publish my findings!!!

    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      Same as Alison. You get loads of experiments that work but you need a lot of them to then make sense of whatever it is you’re looking at. Bit like individual pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.

      Guess the coolest selection of experiments that worked is we we created a virus that only kills cancer cells and leaves normal cells alone. It needs a lot more testing and who knows one day it might go into clinical trials.

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