• Question: whats your favourate experiment you have done and why

    Asked by anon-186812 to Verity, Danny on 13 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Verity Hill

      Verity Hill answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      I used to really enjoy separating blood into its different cell types – I found it really fun that you could see the white blood cells and scoop them up for further experiments!

    • Photo: Danny Ward

      Danny Ward answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      My favourite is a plant infection assay. This allows me to understand how good or bad organisms are at infecting plants. I spray or inject bacteria on to plants in a controlled environment. I then analyse the disease symptoms after a while and see how many bacteria made it in to the plant 🌱.
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      This is really useful as this tells us a lot about plant diseases and we can then do more experiments to understand how the bacteria are able to do this and potential things we could try to stop them 🛑.

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