• Question: have you ever researched microscopic things, like cells?

    Asked by pizzalover to Daniel, Giovanna, Greg, Kelly, Lowri on 9 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Daniel Biggs

      Daniel Biggs answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      In my job I get to look down a microscope everyday to see how the cells are growing. Is this what you mean?

    • Photo: Kelly Houton

      Kelly Houton answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi Pizza lover,

      as a Chemist, I am able to deal with things a lot smaller than cells- atoms are about an Ångström big (1x 10^−10 m).

      My research used X-Rays to measure polymer chains which has aggregated together- and they were about 4 Angsroms

    • Photo: Giovanna Tancredi

      Giovanna Tancredi answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      My research focuses on developing tiny electrical circuits. some of them have the same size of a cell!

    • Photo: Greg Irving

      Greg Irving answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Yes, when I was at medical school I researched a really nasty bacteria called Campylobacter that gives people food poisoning. We were look at the proteins that the bacteria produces to see if any of them could be used to make a vaccine against the bacteria. The ideas was that the vaccine could be used in chickens (were campylobater liked to live). This would stop humans getting the bacteria when we eat undercooked chicken. You can ready the scientific paper we wrote about it through the link below. Can you spot the campylobacter in the pictures ?

      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855769/

    • Photo: Lowri Evans

      Lowri Evans answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      My work looks at people’s behaviour. Sometimes it feels like people’s brains must be microscopic, but that’s luckily never the case 🙂

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