• Question: what is the coolest thing you have done in science?

    Asked by joshuafo to Claire, Elizabeth, Manolis, Mark, Zach on 10 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Mark Wallace

      Mark Wallace answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Coolest thing overall? A trip to Hawaii to give a lecture was a pretty cool trip.

      Coolest scientific thing? I’ve been able to watch with my own eyes how molecules come together to do stuff – I’m my case how they come together and work as a small team to achieve their goal (in this case making holes in cells).

    • Photo: Zach Dixon

      Zach Dixon answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Infected cells with a modified virus and made them glow in the dark 🙂

    • Photo: Claire Vinten

      Claire Vinten answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      The coolest thing I have done is use an MRI machine. These are huge machines that use magnets to take detailed pictures of the insides of an animal (or human). They are a bit like X-rays, but can see a lot more than a normal X-ray machine can. It is very expensive to take a picture with one of them, so I was lucky to get to use one!

    • Photo: Elizabeth Ratcliffe

      Elizabeth Ratcliffe answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Travelling and meeting new people is really cool, I once travelled across five American states in five days to some of the best US research Centres, every day was really exciting and very fast paced. In my science – one the coolest things was watching one of my bioreactors come to life before my eyes by seeing the cells inside it glow using a method no-one had ever used before.

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