• Question: I love what you want to do with the money what else would you do with it?

    Asked by clarkemv01 to Amelia on 12 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Amelia Markey

      Amelia Markey answered on 12 Jun 2011:

      I’m really glad you like it! 🙂

      I think a lot of the money will be spent on equipment for the experiments, food and transport costs to get you to our lab. I’m not totally sure how it will work as a lot of you are quite far away from manchester…perhaps you could run some competitions in your schools to see who gets to come?

      I’d love to know if you’ve got any other ideas of what else I could do. Although I don’t think a lot of money will be left over.

Comments

  • Photo: clarkemv01

    clarkemv01 commented on :

    You could use the extra money on you project. Do you harm animals in your work or do you use plants. What other types of things do you use in your experiments?

  • Photo: Amelia

    Amelia commented on :

    I don’t think there will be a lot of money left over to be honest and I already get some money for my work so I’d like to spend this money (if I’m lucky enough to win) on you guys!

    I don’t do any animal or plant research. All the cells I use for my DNA are human cells which are grown in a special clean lab. A lot of what I do is looking at the reaction in which DNA is copied, seeing if it works at different temperatures, different volumes, in oil etc and then trying to make a device that can copy the DNA for me.

    Once I’ve done this I’ll look at different ways to break open cells and make a device to do this. Then I’ll try and make a device to store the copied DNA. Already got some ideas of how to do this so hope they work 🙂