• Question: Waht type of cells do you mess around with?

    Asked by to Lucy on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Lucy Remnant answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      On a daily basis I work with a few different types of cells.
      I work with colon cancer and breast cancer cells as these have lots of my protein, Reptin, in them. But I also use non-cancerous cells sometimes to look at how they react to what I am doing to the cancer cells.

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    kira1998 commented on :

    what is the best type of cells in you eyes

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      Lucy commented on :

      It really depends on what you are working on.
      When I was working on antibodies I used CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cells but now I am working on cancer I use colon cancer cells.

      I really like working with my colon cancer HCT cells as they grow quite quickly which means I can do lots of experiments with them. Also some of the ones I use have a protein called p53 which is related to cancer removed which means I get a look at how things change in the presence and absence of p53.