• Question: have you ever saved someone's life by working with cells (by giving them cells)?

    Asked by lilpanda to Anzy, Aoife, Dave, Matt, Tomasz on 14 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: David Christensen

      David Christensen answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      No I haven’t and I wish I could say I had! My work is all just in a lab and I don’t see any patients and we can’t give anyone the cells we work with in the lab.

    • Photo: Matthew Tomlinson

      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      No it haven’t. I was once called up to donate bone marrow, but that is as close as I’ve got.

    • Photo: Anzy Miller

      Anzy Miller answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      No I haven’t. I also don’t work with patients or with anything that goes into the clinic so havent given any cells.

      And I wouldn’t want to give the cells I’m working on to people, because they definitely would do more harm than good (they are mouse cells so would be rejected by humans and they are embryonic stem cells and so might cause cancer as they are embryo cells and aren’t in the right environment)…

    • Photo: Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan

      Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      Hi lilpanda,
      No unfortunately I haven’t either. Hopefully some of my work can go toward making it possible for someone in a clinic to do this in the future!

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