Have you ever found anything undiscovered until that point?

Question: Have you ever found anything undiscovered until that point?

Asked by baronschnell28 to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: Your Research. This question was also asked by pricee.
- Panos Soultanas answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  All research resuts we find and publsih in scientific journals are undiscovered. Otherwise one will not be able to publish his/her own results.
- Mark Travis answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  Yes, virtually every experiment we do discovers something new that no one else knew about- we try not to do experiments that we already know what to expect! But whether the results we get are interesting or not are another matter…..
  
  One thing we discovered is the role of a protein expressed in the immune system that we found is important in stopping unwanted immune responses that can cause inflammatory bowel disease. This forms the basis of all the work in my lab at the moment.
- Sarah Burl answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  A monitor lizard under the freezer!
  
  Hopefully we are all doing this in a small way, I found certain molecules that were produced after BCG vaccination that no one had seen but now lots have people have seen the same thing. I have also found that responses in 1 month old infants are quite mature and similar to 12 months of age to specific molecules that I was testing. Often many scientists are actualy working on similar things and it is all about who can get their work published first that counts!
- Mark Fogg answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  Yes I have, on a very regular basis. That’s why scientists regularly publish our work in scientific journals, to tell people what new stuff we’ve found out. I just published one last week and have had about five papers published in recent months. I’m writing some more now. The most important thing I discovered was how a particular bug recognises damage in its DNA and repairs it, stopping it from getting mutations.
- Michael Loughlin answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  yes that a certain bacteria was highly acid resistant and could explode red blood cells with a toxin

Question: Have you ever found anything undiscovered until that point?

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