• Question: what has been you latest experiment?

    Asked by estaban to Leo, Jo on 1 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by andy2000.
    • Photo: Joanne Sharpe

      Joanne Sharpe answered on 1 Jun 2018:

      I dissected some fly larvae to look at toxic dementia proteins under the microsocope. They glow green when you shine light on them because they are attached to a protein called “green fluorescent protein” or GFP. GFP actually comes from a jellyfish, but scientists often use it to “tag” their proteins so you can see them in a cell.

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  • Photo: joeyshepherd

    joeyshepherd commented on :

    I grow human skin in the lab and use it to test things on – my last experiment was testing a new antibacterial treatment that other people I work with had made, so I made some skin, infected it with bacteria and tested to see if the antibacterial treatment could kill the bacteria causing the infection. It worked 🙂

  • Photo: Donna

    Donna commented on :

    My latest experiment has involved trying to find out what our fungal contaminants are… our agar plates have things growing on them that are not supposed to be there… I have grown them up, extracted DNA and used PCR to identify what they are… one is a really cool bright pink yeast called Rhodotorula