• Question: Have you found anything to what mutations cause the cancer/do you think you are close to finding it?

    Asked by ModStephenHawking to Nicholas, Craig on 6 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by harry the scientific scie.
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      Nicholas Younger answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      Yes! I have been doing experiments for only a year, but I have some mutations which have come out of my experiments that I think might be causing this liver cancer.

      This is the first time I’ve done the experiments so I need to repeat them. In science you never do anything once. You have to do things 3 times or more before you can say with confidence that the results are real – not just a coincidence!

      I’m going to take the promising mutations and do more experiments just on them to see if they can cause cancer and how they might do that. It’s very exciting! It’s the whole reason I do science, when you’ve planned and done an experiment that no one has ever done before and it actually works – there’s no better feeling in the world!

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