Ahh, cool.
The mental image I've got is having millions of, say, samples of blood, looking at it under a microsocope or putting it into some Whuuurrr Buzzzz'nator type thing, and the results showing you something similar or different each time, like, say [and forgive me here, I really don't know] Blood Type/Chromozone/DNA strand, and then marking it down. That then compares to an ID of an indevidual who has XYZ 'wrong' with them, and then at the end of the millions of tests you can say "Ahh, people with _this_ genetic marker tend to have _this_ desease. When they end up taking _this_ chemical, _that_ genetic marker is reduced, and so are the symptons".

Except, there is an almost infinate amount of sinarios and possiblities, and you can't test out some of the theories because, well, you can't just give someone a chemical, it has to go to a board of people.... which is where I would personally get fustrated as I would like to do something with the results.

Have I got the right idea about it?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 20:21, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

It sounds about right
That sounds quite similar to what i'm sort of involved in, looking at genetic markers for disease susceptibility. It's got the potential to be really fascinating but just gets bogged down in other stuff.
Sometime research can be really exciting. Honest! Sometimes i wish we had magic CSI-like machines though.
(The Ginger Penguin la la la la la la, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 20:28, Reply)

Cool, what kind of stuff gets in the way of doing bits you want?
Are there hundreds of you in the lab, or just a few? What would be your ideal lab gig?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 20:47, Reply)

Just a few of us
I think the main thing at this place in the way is the people managing the group, they're a bit twitchy about us having more reponsibility and publishing stuff. Not sure why cos it would just make them look better if we had more papers out.
Ideal lab gig? I would really like to work on growing new organs. I think it's a real possibility for the future but there's loads we don't know about the pathways involved in organ development. It'd be pretty cool to grow someone a heart in a jar in a lab :)
(The Ginger Penguin la la la la la la, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 20:52, Reply)

Grow someone a new pancreas
that would be awesome.
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Spleens'R'us

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Fallopians 4 U

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