• Question: what is the most unique thing you have donw with sience?

    Asked by xholliex to Phil, Upul, Ian, Derek, Daniel on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by ryantracey.
    • Photo: Derek Mann

      Derek Mann answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      That is a really difficult question! I am not sure I have done anything that I would call “unique” as there are only ever one or two scientists in any one generation that make a truly unique discovery and if that discovery is important enough then they usually win a nobel prize. As much as I would love to be in the catagory, I am not. The science I have done that I most proud of is my work on discovering chemical signals in the liver that stimulate scars to form which can be bad for liver function and cause a lot of suffering to people with liver disease. Also being able to now exploit this knowledge to devise medical treatments that prevent scar formation or which might even remove scars.

    • Photo: Daniel Mietchen

      Daniel Mietchen answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      Perhaps imaging a somewhat strangely shaped fossil from an ancient squid (75 million years ago) and thereby finding out (non-invasively) that it (probably) owed its form to two bites from a predator that cracked the interior skeleton of the animal which nonetheless managed to escape and to live on for a while after that.

    • Photo: Ian Sillett

      Ian Sillett answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      The most unique thing I’ve done? Well my project at the moment is, as far as I know, the only one in the world so probably that.

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