• Question: what is one of your smallest iventions?

    Asked by RW family to Omur, Maddison, Jimi, Hayley, Chris on 11 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Maddison Coke

      Maddison Coke answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      I do nano-science, which is pretty much the study of small things! I can make gold smiley faces that are smaller then the thickness of your hair. The smallest thing I’ve ever made was 100 nanometer ( a nanometer is 1000 000 000 times smaller than a meter) that was a really thin layer of atoms that I put onto some glass. Its pretty cool working with small things but does mean you have to have special microscopes to see them and takes a long time to work out what you have made sometimes.

    • Photo: Jimi Wills

      Jimi Wills answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      The smallest thing I ever made was an oligonucleotide… a very short piece of DNA. It was unique, and I used it to discover a new gene in a tiny nematode worm. The oligonucleotide was 2.5 nanometers wide and 7.5 nanometers long.

    • Photo: Omur Tastan

      Omur Tastan answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      Himm, smallest invention:) They are all pretty small but once I discovered a spot in the cell and my protein was going in that tiny spot:) nowhere else but that spot!!!

      I wondered why for a long time but we didn’t work on that project more and moved on to other projects 🙂

    • Photo: Hayley Moulding

      Hayley Moulding answered on 12 Mar 2016:

      Smallest invention – I have worked with moving DNA sequences from bacteria into our bacteria. Bacteria is pretty small. I don’t thing I have ever really invented anything though. Just worked with small things!

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