It does sound really complicated, I agree. But actually, what I do every day is not very complicated at all! I make sure I have really clear instructions that I have to follow, like you do for experiments in school. I just follow the steps, and hope that it works! I guess the hardest part is when an experiment doesn’t work, I have to figure out what went wrong for the next time I try it. But if I get stuck, there are lots of other scientists around to help, and share ideas with. I really enjoy my job 🙂
It is very complicated but my role here is to communicate my project to you in a way that you should be able to understand what I’m trying to achieve in overall.
My primary goal in my research is to develop a therapeutical treatment for cardiovascular diseases – for this reason, first I need the understand the mechanism of cardiovascular diseases. In order to do that, I take a synthetic biology approach. I design synthetic promoters which can direct my killer or assassin genes to target specific cells of my interest. For instance, if I want to understand the role of a neuron X in cardiovascular diseases, I selectively kill neuron X to see what is happening in the absence of neuron X.
The techniques I use are complicated to be honest but I would be happy to physically show you all if you could visit my lab.
It does sound really complicated, I agree. But actually, what I do every day is not very complicated at all! I make sure I have really clear instructions that I have to follow, like you do for experiments in school. I just follow the steps, and hope that it works! I guess the hardest part is when an experiment doesn’t work, I have to figure out what went wrong for the next time I try it. But if I get stuck, there are lots of other scientists around to help, and share ideas with. I really enjoy my job 🙂
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It is very complicated but my role here is to communicate my project to you in a way that you should be able to understand what I’m trying to achieve in overall.
My primary goal in my research is to develop a therapeutical treatment for cardiovascular diseases – for this reason, first I need the understand the mechanism of cardiovascular diseases. In order to do that, I take a synthetic biology approach. I design synthetic promoters which can direct my killer or assassin genes to target specific cells of my interest. For instance, if I want to understand the role of a neuron X in cardiovascular diseases, I selectively kill neuron X to see what is happening in the absence of neuron X.
The techniques I use are complicated to be honest but I would be happy to physically show you all if you could visit my lab.
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