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Asked by anon-292585 to Ross on 21 Apr 2021.
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Ross Low answered on 21 Apr 2021:
Hi Liam,
That’s a really good question! The first thing I discovered was while I was doing research as part of my first job as a scientist. I was working on how cells get older and how some cells can stop ageing or even get younger!
I didn’t find out exactly how they do that but I did find out that the way they stop aging is linked to how they divide and make new cells. It turns out those two things have a lot in common. I know it doesn’t sound very exciting but the other scientists were very excited about it.
Ross
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Ed commented on :
When I was at University I discovered that certain molecules in the brain change in a disease known as schizophrenia. We used MRI scanners to measure these molecules and compare them to health volunteers.
Abdullah commented on :
Found out that a protein involved in the movement of cells in the fly gut is very important for their movement and could be targeted to develop therpaies to stop cancer cells from moving around so much
Steve commented on :
My very first science job was working in a lab one summer at University (aged about19). I helped discover a chemical that some patients release when they have cancer that makes them lose weight.
Michael commented on :
I started working on the ‘tails’ of bacteria called flagella that help them swim, and my first discovery was to show how the different bits of the DNA, the bit that encodes everything about the cell, makes the different parts of the flagella and how changing the DNA effects how the bacteria swim.
Lucile commented on :
The very first thing I discovered when I was volunteering on excavations as a student in Archaeology, was the jaw bone of a cave bear that lived about 500,000 years ago. It was not necessarily a major discovery for the archaeologists there (as they already knew cave bears were common at the time), but I was so excited to find one myself, and see how their teeth looked!