Related Questions
- How often do scientists find new diseases?
- If you could prevent a scientific discovery from the past what would it be?
- what is the most exciting discovery you have made in your area of work
- So far how much research have you uncovered concerning cardiovascular diseases?
- where do you start when it comes to finding a cure for a disease
By BRIDGE8 under license from Mangorolla CIC 2024
Well, most of my experiments can take a long time, a few months each usually. So I’d say I find something really exciting every few months, which gives me the momentum to keep going through some hard work to get to the next discovery!
1
I discovered something new just today. I did the experiment yesterday and today i analysed the results and i have discovered that one of my proteins can bind to iron, which no one knew before. But like katelin said, some experiments can take weeks, months, or even years depending on your methods.
0
I’m hoping to discover something new by the end of the year. The experiments I do only give me a small piece of imformation in the puzzle and by the end of the year I should be able to be all the pieces together and tell a story of what I have found. But as the others have said the time can vary depending on what you are doing. It’s important to stay excited about your little discoveries on the way to something big!
0
Cancer research (as we know it) started in mid-1990s and is still going on. Big discoveries are either come out of long, dedicated work which can take ages and few generation of scientists and sometimes they come out of serendipities like the discovery of penicillin. In most cases the answer is already in front of you just waiting to be discovered, so you have to keep your mind sharp to discover it.
Human genome project was completed in 2003. It took the best minds of the world more than 10 years to complete it. Now the current technology allows us to read one’s entire sequence in couple of hours (10 years vs couple of hours). It will soon be cheap enough to sequence your own genome. But hey! what does the genome sequence tell you – all you see is bunch of As, Ts, Cs and Gs (unless you are an alien). But we only know less than 10% of what that means, so what’s the point of downloading a 100-page e-book which is written in a language you don’t know – you can’t read it properly!… Well, you see the answer in front of you, coded in letters. We will learn how to read & interpret it one day, but who know when? Maybe you might be one the scientists who will discover the code and show us how to read it… It is just a matter of time…
0