• Question: What piece of equipment would you use the most in experiments?

    Asked by Adam da Junior Scientist to Hugh, James, Katherine, Matt, Shannon on 9 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Katherine Benson

      Katherine Benson answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      I use equipment to heat and cool samples, to spin tubes and special machines that we use to sequence DNA and to count the amount of DNA in a tube.

    • Photo: James Brown

      James Brown answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      We use our fancy microscopes lots. its important to actually see what is happening inside cells- and super cool!

    • Photo: Shannon Fullbrook

      Shannon Fullbrook answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      A pipette!

      Its basically a device which allows me to add really really small amounts of liquids to different experiments , I normally work with volumes as small as 10uL. A uL is a volume similar to mL but its a whole lot smaller, for example a can of coke has 330mL in it, but if you were to describe that in uL instead of mL , a can of coke contains 330000uL. so think about how small a can of coke is and how many uL are in it…. that just shows you how very very smaaaaall a uL is…

    • Photo: Hugh J. Byrne

      Hugh J. Byrne answered on 11 Nov 2017:

      We use spectrometers, which measure how materials interact with light, across the spectrum. Most of the newer instruments are also microscopes, so we can measure the interaction of light with cells. We would call these spectroscopic microscopes.

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