• Question: what is the one thing you have not been able to solve as a scientist ? that you would like to !

    Asked by alicenicky to Werner, Madgie, Carla on 9 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Carla Turner

      Carla Turner answered on 9 Nov 2013:

      When I started my work as a scientist I had an experiment to do, where we attached a colour to different proteins.
      This experiment was to see how far the proteins travel through the plant and would of meant at the end of it I would of had a plant that glowed blue and yellow!
      Unfortunately I never managed to attach the colour to the proteins so we don’t know how far they travel and more upsetting we don’t have a multicoloured plant!

    • Photo: Werner Muller

      Werner Muller answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Chronic inflammation is a severe disease. Up to now we can cure the symptoms. This works for some time for some patients. Then treatment gets more difficult. I would like to find a magic way to reverse and resolve chronic inflammation in a way that it does not need treatment anymore. But we are still miles away.

    • Photo: Marlene Lorgen

      Marlene Lorgen answered on 12 Nov 2013:

      Hmmm this is a tricky question! For me, I started a study looking at something called ‘epigenetics’, which looks at differences between individuals which are not due to their DNA. We wanted to find out if there were differences in epigenetic control of expression of a gene between animals raised under summer or winter conditions. We made a good start with the study, but then ran into some technical problems and did not have time to finish it off. I really hope to get back into this study at some point!

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