• Question: what is the most interesting thing you have 'discovered' ?

    Asked by janieolver to Shane on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Shane Pennington-Cooper

      Shane Pennington-Cooper answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Hello Janieolver.

      The most interesting thing I have discovered is a way to naturally reduce the size of cancer cells and force them to die without any chemicals which are not already produced by our bodies. Unfortunately due to the lack of funds I have I cannot visit Utah so I can carry on my research. Hopefully if I win IAS I will be able to start creating the actual cure with the help of the genetics division in UTAH University. Hopefully cancer should be a thing of the past. I think that has got to be the most interesting thing I have discovered.

      Hope this answers your question.

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  • Photo: Anna

    Anna commented on :

    Hi Janieolver,
    I think the most interesting thing I have ‘discovered’ was a way to find out how long someone had had a fracture for – ie: could we work out if the fracture was caused minutes and hours before the person died or months before the person died. In my PhD, I looked at bone cells under a microscope to chart the changes that occur as the bone repsonds to the fracture or break, and measured them against time. This meant I could look at a fracture from another person, and compare the cells I saw and the progress of the fracture healing process against my samples where I knew the age of the fracture, and work out the age of the fracture in the unknown sample. This was particularly useful when it came to investigating fractures in babies ribs.