what sienc xperymets have you done in the past

Question: what sienc xperymets have you done in the past
- Keywords:
  experiment,
  work
Asked by anon-202560 to Rebecca, Raashid, Matthew, Marie, Hanna, Gareth on 2 Mar 2019.
- Matthew Smith answered on 2 Mar 2019:
  
  Over the years i have been lucky enough to do many different types of experiments. I think my favourites are those that involve live microscopy. In these experiments, even if it doesn’t work, at least you have pretty movies at the end!
- Gareth Nye answered on 2 Mar 2019:
  
  I’ve done so many experiments in my career so far – my favourite involves testing how strong muscles are using electric and scanning bones in a fancy xray
- Rebecca Gosling answered on 2 Mar 2019:
  
  I do a lot of experiments with computers where I can simulate blood flow in the body. This is pretty cool and makes pretty pictures. I have also done lots of experience with patients blood cells and trying to understand why they behave in the way they do. This is cool but can be very fiddly!
- Marie Cameron answered on 4 Mar 2019:
  
  All sorts, as I have had different types of job. Some were laboratory based science experiments – I used to work on proteins in the blood that help the blood to clot when you get cut. I have also worked with things called randomised controlled trials, which are big experiments where you try to find out things like whether a new medicine for something works better than an exisiting medicine for that thing.
- Hanna Jeffery answered on 4 Mar 2019:
  
  I did lots in my first job. We used radioactive chemicals to see how cancer acts differently from other parts of the body.
  Radioactive sugar (called FDG) is the most common chemical to use for this. Cancer uses up lots of energy, so if you put radioactive sugar into a patient who has cancer, lots of it will go to the place where they have the cancer. When you take pictures with a PET scanner, you can see the cancer ‘lit up’ because of the radioactivity.
  We were doing experiments to see what other chemicals might give us better pictures or show us whether a cancer treatment is working.
- Raashid Ali answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  I’ve been involved in many experiments, from experiments in the class room or research laboratories to clinical trials or research at a hospital. In the final years of university I designed my own research, so during my first degree I conducted research looking at how the growth of hair is affected by certain proteins and during my second degree I was looking to see how the height of a drain to remove fluid from the brain would affect the recovery of patients. I have also been lucky enough to be part of cancer research, where I worked with lots of studies conducted at different hospitals here and in Europe, to either find out more about certain cancers – using blood and urine samples – or to measure the quality of life of patients as well as working with teams that would trial new drugs for certain cancers.

Question: what sienc xperymets have you done in the past

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