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Asked by therandomc64 to Andy, Dwaine, Natt, Priya, Tatiana on 16 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Are you mad bro?.
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Andrew Scott answered on 16 Jun 2015:
I spilt a huge bucket of water all over the MRI scanner once. I was really worried I’d broken it, but thankfully it was ok.
A couple of times I’ve worked really hard on a new idea and then someone at another university has had the same idea and finished the work just before I did. That makes the work I’d done less well recognised by other scientists.
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Natt Day answered on 17 Jun 2015:
A couple of years ago I was doing a study on the fats that are present in the lung tissue and that meant I had to do a lot of Mass Spectroscopy to detect them. I had collected and loaded some of my lung tissue sample into the machine and told the machine to run and left it to start the protocol. However when I came back to check on the Mass Spectrometer it turned out that the machine had broken down halfway through! It meant I lost most of my lung tissue samples and got no data from it. That was a very, very sad day.
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Tatiana Trantidou answered on 17 Jun 2015:
A couple of times, the heart cells I tried to culture in the lab died unexpectedly. This meant that the rat pups we dissected to take these cells, died for nothing (well, not actually for nothing, but their cells were not used for our experiments) and that we had to wait another week to take cells from other rat pups.
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