• Question: do you kill the bugs you use for experiments?

    Asked by rebecca1997 to Andrew, Ash, Gem, Paige, SJ on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 28 Jun 2012:


      I’ve never killed an insect bug for my experiments! However, if we are talking ‘bacteria’ ‘bugs’, then yes, I have killed many bacteria for my experiments! I worked with silver nanoparticles for medical applications, and silver nanoparticles have natural antiobiotic properties. That means that silver nanoparticles destroy bacteria! When you see things at the store that are labeled as having natural antibiotic properties, like vaccuum cleaners or dog bowls or clothing, they may likely have silver nanoparticles inside the them!!!

    • Photo: Ashley Cadby

      Ashley Cadby answered on 28 Jun 2012:


      I kill or have a biologist kill the bacteria we use, we either crush them to death or poison them

    • Photo: Gemma Staite

      Gemma Staite answered on 28 Jun 2012:


      I kill the bacteria, to see which antibiotic works best to treat an infection caused by them.

    • Photo: SarahJayne Boulton

      SarahJayne Boulton answered on 1 Jul 2012:


      I kill millions of bacteria every day so they don’t infect the skin samples that the kind donors give us! However I don’t use bacteria on a day to day basis for my experiments – I use tumour cells, skin cells and the mitochondria I extract from them.

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