• Question: Where do you get the cells you grow from. do you talk it from animals-plants or humans?

    Asked by chigz to Fiona, Joanna, Michelle, William on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: William Davies

      William Davies answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      I use whole bits of tissue (generally brain tissue) taken from dead animals. I also use DNA from humans, which we extract from blood samples (and very occasionally, bits of human brain which we get from people who have donated their bodies to science)

    • Photo: Fiona Randall

      Fiona Randall answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      The cells I use come from mice.

    • Photo: Michelle Murphy

      Michelle Murphy answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      I look at cells in the brain and I get brain slices from animals (hamsters) but I do not grow cells. If there was an alternative way of looking at cells in the brain it would be great and we are starting to use computer models but they are not always accurate.

    • Photo: Joanna Brooks

      Joanna Brooks answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Hello! Do you mean the cells that you grow from? If so, the cells in your body are all human cells – you grow from cells in your mother’s womb – these cells contain DNA which contain your ‘genes’ (the building blocks of the human body). If not, I don’t use cells in my research!

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