• Question: what was the first diseas you found?

    Asked by 635mcrk46 to Christopher, Emma, Aaron, Ananthi, Ashley, Lea on 4 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by 368mcrk46, Charlotte, 999mcrk21.
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      Emma Stevenson answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      I haven’t actually haven’t found any diseases. But the first bacteria I properly worked with caused a diarrhoea illness 😆

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      Christopher Richardson answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      I haven’t ever found a disease! Most of the common reasons you get sick have been discovered already but the first bacteria I worked out glowed in the dark and infected your heart!

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      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      Yes most diseases and bacteria have been discovered a long long time ago. However in my lab there are a couple of people who have discovered brand new viruses that can attack bacteria. Science can be one giant piece of team work, one person may find something and then new people may join the research group and start new work to find out more.

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      Aaron Brown answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      I don’t actually work with diseases, I am an Environmental Microbiologist, meaning I am looking at how we can use microorganisms to generate renewable energy.

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