• Question: Which do you think was your most successful and helpful experiment done by you?

    Asked by Tonijohnson to Sian, Max, Lizzie, Francis, Ben on 9 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by PBB.
    • Photo: Max Jamilly

      Max Jamilly answered on 9 Mar 2018:

      Hey! Nice question. When I was an undergraduate student I did some cool work using nematode worms. They are just tiny worms but because they are so easy to work with in the lab, they’re actually a really powerful tool for understanding how cells work. I used them to study the genetics of a protein that causes Alzheimer’s disease. We found a protein that we thought may be involved in damaging the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. We then tested the same protein in tiny fruit flies and saw that it affected the way they fly, making us even more confident that the protein was important. Now it’s being used to develop new medicines to make people deal with this disease.

    • Photo: Lizzie Wright

      Lizzie Wright answered on 10 Mar 2018:

      Oh gosh, I don’t know! I researched a treatment to help the heart heal following a heart attack. I hope one day it will be used to treat this disease.

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