• Question: What was the strangest thing you have ever seen in a human body/human cells?

    Asked by EvelynT to Ben, Lizzie, Francis, Max, Sian on 12 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by 246munm24.
    • Photo: Sian Richardson

      Sian Richardson answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      It wasn’t exactly strange but I found it really cool. Whiles doing my PhD we had a mouse muscle cell line called C2C12. They grow on the surface of the flask they grow in, so a single layer of cells. I was looking down the microscope and I saw them twitching. Muscle cells usually need to be rolled up or have a stimulus applied to them to make them twitch, so was quite surprised when they were twitching away on their own.

    • Photo: Ben Mulhearn

      Ben Mulhearn answered on 14 Mar 2018:

      Hmm. Difficult question to answer! I’ve working in the Emergency Department which means I’ve seen quite a few different things in the human body, put there by an accident of course!

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