how would you take your reasearch futher?

Question: how would you take your reasearch futher?
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Asked by anon-220345 on 7 Jun 2019. This question was also asked by anon-221055.
- Kate Timms answered on 7 Jun 2019:
  
  One of the things I would really love to do is take my PhD work further. I’ve moved onto something else (diabetes in pregnancy) for a while, but I’m still hoping we will get a grant (money) to carry on my PhD work.
  
  My PhD research looked at tiny parcels of proteins and RNAs from the fruit and vegetables we eat, looking at how these parcels affect the intestines of pregnant women and help their placentas to develop and function healthily. I think it’s a really exciting project which links a healthy diet to a healthy pregnancy and could maybe even help to develop a treatment in the future!
- James Streetley answered on 8 Jun 2019:
  
  Right now, I mostly help other people carry out research, but I could help them take their research further by learning some new imaging techniques and ways to prepare their sample for the microscope. New techniques for sample preparation will for sure help all electron microscopy scientists take their research further.
  
  Like Kate, I think there are still some interesting questions left to look at on my PhD work, using the electron microscope to look at how proteins that help your blood to clot are stored before they are needed. So if I had a free choice of anything, I’d love to re-visit that. Even though I only finished it 4 years ago, the technology has moved on so far that we could already do so much more!
- David Wilson answered on 10 Jun 2019:
  
  I would broaden my skills.
  There’s two main types of scientist, “wet” and “dry”, both are important.
  A “wet” scientist has skills that you would expect to find in a traditional lab, they work with cells, tissue, chemicals in a traditional lab environment.
  A “dry” scientist works with large data sets like, genomes and population data, using massive computers to do complex calculations or tricky disease modelling. They’re sometimes called bioinformaticians or computational biologists.
  Most scientists will be one or the other depending on what they studied at University, there’s not many scientists that combine both effectively.
  I’ve got a broad range of “wet” lab skills as I’ve been learning for a a number of years but I want learn some computational skills so that I can answer some really cool questions I have about disease and cancer.
- Nina Rzechorzek answered on 30 Jun 2019:
  
  Similar to David, most of my lab experience has been with ‘wet’ skills and right now I’m trying to build other skills in bioinformatics, computation, and programming. I think it will become increasingly important to understand how to integrate these things with my cell culture work – not just because we can now generate very large datasets from cells, but because we want to be able to perform some ‘hypothesis-free’ analyses and reduce the inherent bias in biological experiments. It’s not possible to be an expert in everything, so a crucial part of my research over the next 4 years is to develop solid collaborations with other research groups in academia and industry that have complementary skills to my own – working together we can answer research questions and find new treatments much faster.

Question: how would you take your reasearch futher?

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