• Question: Why do you like crushing mutant bacteria ?

    Asked by nsam to Darren on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Darren Nesbeth answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Crushing them gives me data. For a scientist, gathering interesting data is like winning games for sport teams.

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    Keith commented on :

    Darren – I don’t think that gathering data is the key step – it’s using that data to test, refine or create hypotheses that is important. Francis Bacon (a 17th century English philosopher/scientist) was big on collecting facts, tabulating and classifying them, but I think that its the underlying organizing principles that are more interesting.

    Nsam – Crushing bacteria get the bits inside (like the DNA and RNA) out so that you can measure them.