• Question: Has anything ever gone wrong?

    Asked by cookiejayden to Anzy, Aoife, Dave, Matt, Tomasz on 19 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan

      Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      Hi cookiejayden,
      Things go wrong for me pretty regularly! Usually small things and usually down to my forgetfulness but sometimes I do have to scrap whole experiments and that is pretty frustrating : (

    • Photo: David Christensen

      David Christensen answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      Things go wrong for me in my experiments all the time! It can be really annoying and it isn’t always my fault! (It is my fault a lot of the time though)

    • Photo: Matthew Tomlinson

      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      Things go wrong often, sometimes it can be useful because you see new things, for example I once forgot about some cells I had growing, when I came to look at the cells I noticed they had started to produce a protein in much greater amounts than normal. This led to a lot more work and is now being published. Other things can just be annoying, infections to your cells by bacteria and fungi can be really irritating as your experiments are just wasted.

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