Question: have you made any major discoveries in your work

Asked by ninetails9999 to Carina, Emma, Hannah, Mel, Yashar on 26 Aug 2012. This question was also asked by jboeg2, hayleerose5217, 81light1, mcc0041, mcox, asimmon1.

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  1. Photo: Carina MarshallCarina Marshall
    answered on 26 Aug 2012:

    When I worked with the WA museum, I found the oldest fossilized muscle tissue in the world (400 million years old or so)! That was pretty exciting. Major discoveries are few and far between…most of science is tiny little steps. I am finding interesting things about vitamin D levels in kids that no one has ever found before…but I don’t know how major it really is!

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  2. Photo: Hannah BrownHannah Brown
    answered on 27 Aug 2012:

    Here where i am working, many of the major discoveries we have made are now being used to help women that have trouble getting pregnant, to conceive. In the last 20 years, we have really made huge improvements so that most people are able to get a healthy baby at the end of the process. It’s a really exciting to know that the work we are doing is helping people!

    When i lived in America, i met a man who won a noble prize for describing DNA! Now that is a huge discovery!!

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  3. Photo: Melina EllisMelina Ellis
    answered on 27 Aug 2012:

    Thanks for the question, many of the discoveries in our area of research have helped to understand how the enteric nervous system (ENS) is organised and controls the different behaviours of our digestive system.

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  4. Photo: Emma BurrowsEmma Burrows
    answered on 28 Aug 2012:

    My work and the work of people in my lab shows that mice living in stimulating and challenging environments are smarter and protected from diseases later in life. This has very important implications for the way we should design schools, nursing homes, hospitals and even your bedroom!

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  5. Photo: Yashar RazaviYashar Razavi
    answered on 29 Aug 2012:

    I work on a totally different way that cells can talk to each other, that we knew existed. Although I wasn’t the one that 1st found it, i have shown that it can happen in different parts of the body.
    I’m sure everyone here has found something equally cool, that made them feel great about their work 😀

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