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Asked by to Amelia, Jim, Liz, Prateek, Richard on 13 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by bagnalam01.
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Jim Caryl answered on 12 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.
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Amelia Markey answered on 12 Jun 2011:
Like Jim I haven’t “invented” anything really but the device I use (there’s a picture on my profile) was in part designed by me. I had some ideas and my supervisor had some ideas and together we came up with that device which is completely unique. It’s quite exciting at the moment as it has managed to copy some DNA so that’s the first time DNA has been copied in that particular way! 🙂
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Richard Badge answered on 12 Jun 2011:
No, I haven’t any particular thing…
In science we often develop new ways of doing or analysing things (known as methods or protocols) and I have invented a few of these, but they are really only of use to people in my research area.
I do love thinking about inventions though… a few weekends ago I was camping in a very muddy field and wanted an easy way to get welly boots off without falling over (into the mud or into the tent). I thought of something, but of course, when I got home found you could already but one on the internet!
Richard
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Lizzard O'Day answered on 13 Jun 2011:
I’m working on it. I’m a bit of biochemist- meaning I love physics/math and the whole bit. But what really knocks my socks off is applying math to biological problems like disease. I developed technique that the guys in my lab call “O’Day Method to Monitor Metabolites”- I call it “you are what you eat” I figured out a really cool way to look at how the cells in your body breakdown food stuffs for energy and how this changes in diseases like cancer. Cancer cells need a whole different source of energy and we may be able to take advantage of that for new drugs! It’s a really exciting time in lab (which means I’m not sleeping at all). Here we go!
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Prateek Buch answered on 13 Jun 2011:
Not as yet – although I do use other people’s inventions to improve my results. My field doesn’t lend itself to much inventing in the usual sense of the word – although I suppose if I came up with a novel way of treating blindness that could be considered an invention! Or, I could always invent a flying car… 🙂
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