• Question: when do you carry out your experiments?

    Asked by mashal to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Vee Mitchell

      Vee Mitchell answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      It depends on how long they are going to last – I’m actually running an experiment right now that I started at 11.30 this morning and it will finish about 5pm this afternoon. Fortunately it takes 40 mins to run each step so I have time to come and answer you questions for a while. Beore I go home tonight I have to make sure my cells are OK for the weekend – this will take me about an hour and a half, but again I can fit it in whilst the experiment is still running – it helps in science if you can multitask!

    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Unlike experiments in the laboratory, our experiments take years to complete. At the moment we are looking to see if a new kind of radiotherapy is more effective in stopping epileptic seizures than traditional brain surgery where we cut a piece out of someone’s brain. It will take 5 years until we have studied enough people to know which treatment is better – this is because we have to wait to see if they really are better or whether it has just made a temporary change.

    • Photo: Bob Bonwick

      Bob Bonwick answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      During my working day, also weekends or evenings if I have a lot of research.

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