what was the last thing you personally discovered?

Question: what was the last thing you personally discovered?

Asked by emilyjane to Marianne on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: Your Research. This question was also asked by jpriestley.
- Marianne Baker answered on 17 Jun 2010:
  
  Hi emilyjane.
  
  Well! My project at the moment is looking at a cell-surface protein and I’m trying to work out if it’s got functions that no one else has described before, in terms of blood vessel growth into tumours.
  
  That’s the thing with PhDs – it has to be original work and contribute knowledge to the field! It sounds pretty scary, and it is actually, but that’s what research is all about! We do tests to gain new information. If we spent all our time repeating what other people have already done, we wouldn’t learn anything new, ever!
  
  Back to Newton’s quote, that we stand on the shoulders of giants – we rely on the work done in the past – the knowledge base – and build on it with research all the time.
  
  If you don’t try, you’ll never know!

Question: what was the last thing you personally discovered?