Question: Do you have any new inventions ?

Jim Caryl answered on 15 Jun 2011:

I haven’t invented anything that you will have heard of 😉

Like many scientists I know, we have invented new tools, or new ways of using tools, that are only really a benefit to our own work. As I work on bacteria that have evolved resistance (the ability to not be killed) by antibiotic medicine, one aspect of my work is to identify particular antibiotic medicine that bacteria are unable stay resistant to for very long. I would then be able to write something to advise medical doctors about what antibiotics are most useful to use.

On the other hand, I’m always on the look out for new inventions, made by other people, that make my life easier. We have a few machines in the lab that look like they’ve been made by some inventor in a garden shed!