• Question: What is the most interesting thing you have worked on/studied??

    Asked by yogibear to Vince, Hannah, Gopal, Becky, Angela on 19 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by evedobbo, alfalfa, lilellise99, charlotte559.
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      Rebecca Cook answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      The most interesting thing that I studied at university was the cell cycle (how cells control when they divide) and that is what I work on now (sort of).

      I find the cell cycle very interesting as its a very complex process involving lots of proteins that work in a very controlled way. Normal cells have many ‘brakes’ that prevent cells from dividing at the wrong time. These ‘brakes’ are broken in some way in cancers and allow cancer cells to grow out of control and form tumours.

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