• Question: has your experiment been done before?

    Asked by princesscadance to Del, Catherine, John, Krishna, Mo Rassul on 12 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: John Foster

      John Foster answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      We often base our experiments on what other people have done in the past, but with a twist that involves our organ, gene or chemical. So we start by trying to repeat what others have done, then add in our bit. This way we can make sure the experiment is working. The bit that we have added is the new and exciting thing, and nobody has done before. Sometimes we need to make up an experiment completely from scratch, in this case it is possible that nobody in the world has done the same as you!

    • Photo: Catherine Mansfield

      Catherine Mansfield answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      One of the things I love about my job is that I get to do things that nobody has ever done before and try to find out things that nobody knows the answer to. No experiment is really the same as we are always trying to find out new things.

    • Photo: Muhammed Rassul

      Muhammed Rassul answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      What your looking at changes but normally you have a standard procedure you can follow. So no the experiments have not been done before.

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