• Question: hi, what was your first ever experiment?

    Asked by to Ian on 19 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 19 Mar 2014:


      If you mean in work I had to crystallise an enzyme that’s important in the way the cheese ripens – if we could crystallise it we can use X-rays to work out the structure and figure out what it actually does.

      I did it in the end but it took me 10,000 experiments and 2 years! – that was all I did at work in all that time. That’s why I say I’m tenacious

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