• Question: roughly, how long will your experiment take?

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

      John Foster answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Hi,
      This a very good, but difficult question.

      All our experiments are part of one project which we have asked somebody, like a charity, to give us money to do. These projects can be 1, 3 or 5 years long – mine is 3 years.

      Within this project, there will be lots and lots of experiments. Some only take a few hours, most take 1-3 days, while others can take months!

    • Photo: Catherine Mansfield

      Catherine Mansfield answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      No experiment is the same. Some take just an hour whereas some can take days and some months to finish.

    • Photo: Adelle Thrower

      Adelle Thrower answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      When I get a specimen in the lab It usually takes 24 hours to process it. Within a day it’s ready for diagnosis. It then depends on any further testing maybe needed. Sometimes this can take a few days or a few weeks. That’s why when you go to the doctors it takes quite some time before you can get your results.

    • Photo: Muhammed Rassul

      Muhammed Rassul answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      It varies, it depends on so many factors. Some days things can go really quickly and other days the same thing would take ages. No day is exactly the same

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