• Question: what experiment would you do if you could but only one that you cant do any other time??

    Asked by aidan crowther to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I am not sure if i totally understand, but if I could do one experiment in my field, it would be to make what is called a minimal parasite. This means a parasite with the fewest number of genes that could survive. Then I could put back all of the other gene one by one and see what they do!

      But this would be very hard and would take a long long time so i probably wont do it yet!

      Is this what you meant?

    • Photo: Tora Smulders-Srinivasan

      Tora Smulders-Srinivasan answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      I wouldn’t just do one — scientific experiments need to be repeated a number of times to make sure they’re valid.

      But I think it might be cool to test some of my drugs against Parkinson’s on mouse models!

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