• Question: what was your favourite experiment to do in your cancer research

    Asked by Piercia to Sinead on 14 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Hi Piercia,

      During my cancer research I got to work with ‘real’ tumours that were removed from patients during surgery. Using a very special technique called laser capture dissection, I was able to use a laser to cut some of the cancer cells out of the tumour and test the cells to see what genes were important in causing cancer in those cells. I had to travel to the University of Birmingham in the UK to do this work; I didn’t enjoy being away from home but I really enjoyed the science and those experiments were a really important part of my PhD.

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