• Question: where do you get the cells you use for experiments from?

    Asked by chocolate_teddyybear to Chris, Emily, Martin, Natalie, Tamsin on 24 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Martin Coath

      Martin Coath answered on 24 Mar 2010:

      I don’t use real cells in my work. I create cells in my computer!

      This is a bit like a flight simulator. You can buy programs for your PC and games console that make you think you are flying a plane. These things are not just games! Some are so good they are used to train pilots.

      So I write brain simulations which (I hope) are just as realistic as flight simulations 🙂

    • Photo: Chris Cooper

      Chris Cooper answered on 24 Mar 2010:

      I get the red blood cells from my arm (or someone in my lab). Cow muscle cells from the abattoir. Other bacteria and mammalian cell lines are grown from old established frozen stores.

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