• Question: What is the biggest yet most realistic discovery hope to have?

    Asked by yellowflop10 to Aled, Ellie, Fiona, Kev, Willem on 19 Mar 2014.
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      Aled Roberts answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Hey yellowflop10!

      I’m not sure of the question. But if you want to know what the biggest discovery I hope to have, well I think I’ve had mine already!

      I found out how Manuka honey kills certain bacteria. If we are to select antibacterial compounds for use on the NHS we need to know how they work! I found out how it kills (causes some cells to burst open and leak their “guts”!!!). Hopefully my research will make doctors trust honey as an antibacterial agent! Hopefully this will lead to some people being saved from potentially nasty infections!

      Hope that answers your question! 🙂 don’t forget to vote 🙂

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      Kevin Arbuckle answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Who knows what discoveries I’ll make in the future (I struggle enough to think what exactly I’ll even be researching in the future), but for now my biggest discovery could be one of two things. I have some results at the moment that show that poisons change the way that amphibians evolve, which is really exciting! The other one is some research that is almost published (hopefully) and is a method that I invented to study evolution, so if I’m lucky and people like (and use) it, that could have an impact on how people do research!

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