• Question: what is the most exciting piece of equipment you've had to use?

    Asked by anon-236374 to Lucy, Greg, Emma, Anthony, Anna on 16 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Lucy Kelly

      Lucy Kelly answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      I have used a Transmission Electron Microscope, which allows you to actually visualise really tiny things you can’t normally see – like phage! This was really exciting to use as I had never actually seen a phage before.

    • Photo: Greg Heikel

      Greg Heikel answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      Some of the robots we have to do blood tests are really exciting, they can test for around 30 different things, can do loads of tests at the same time and do hundreds of tests an hour!

    • Photo: Emma Hayhurst

      Emma Hayhurst answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      This is great question! I used to use an atomic force microscope – which is a hugely powerful microscope which creates an image by ‘feeling’ the surface – so you can build a 3D map of what it looks like. I used to burst open bacteria and then use the microscope to image what their insides looked like!

    • Photo: Anna Stec

      Anna Stec answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      I have used a intracranial pressure monitoring (IPM) system. I was present during the surgery where a neuro-surgeon has drilled a small hole in a patient’s skull and inserted a small pressure-sensitive probe (transducer) through the skull. Patient was conscious during the procedure!
      The IPM measurements helps doctors assess if high or low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure is causing patient’s symptoms.

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