• Question: did something happened to you bad and good when you were doing an expiriment?

    Asked by lenonking123 to Hitesh, Hywel, Mae, Nik, Tiffany on 19 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tiffany Taylor

      Tiffany Taylor answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      I make small mistakes all the time! But nothing massive comes to mind. I did work with an incredibly clumsy boy who managed to tip a load of bacteria which had the potential to cause an eye infection – into his eye! Doh!

      As far as good things, again this did not happen to me, but a project I am working on happened because someone accidentally left some bacteria on the bench over the weekend – and on Monday morning he noticed it had done something really cool! Now it’s a big project with lots of people working on it.

    • Photo: Hitesh Dave

      Hitesh Dave answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      Yes, it happens both the way..when you are new in the work you likely to make more mistakes but you need to learn quickly from that mistakes…I reme..in my learning period I started processing of the tissues on wrong programme on tissue processor and due to that all those tissues were become so hard and it was not possible to take any sections from that..I was lucky that those tissues were not from regulatory studies and we had back up of other tissues…so I learnt from that mistake…Now I have become more responsible for the work I do…there are lots of good things happend…I have established procedure for smooth fixation of bone tissue..that was my first good thing happend in my previous lab…

    • Photo: Nicola Ibberson

      Nicola Ibberson answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      It’s a lot easier to remember the good things! I’ve helped countless families make choices about their genetic health, and I have found out new things that contribute to the knowledge of genetics.

      But t be honest, it’s the little things that get you most excited. Like when you have a really tiny, pathetic sample of blood to get DNA from, and you think it’s impossible, and then you get a really big chunk of DNA floating around in your tube (it looks like cotton wool!). That is exciting.

      I think the bad things for me are things relating to the families we test. Like when a lady has been through 9 pregnancies and has no living children (because they died either in the womb or once born from genetic disease), then we get a sample from her 10th pregnancy to test for the family mutation, and the baby has it and has to be aborted. That is devastating. I have cried, many many times, over women I don’t know!

Comments