Question: if you had a unlimited amout of money what would you do with the money ?

Sarah Burl answered on 16 Jun 2010:

I would set up my own lab and look at all aspects of the immune response to vaccines in infants. A lot of human research is very expensive because you need a lot of people involved in the study. This is because not everyone responds in the same way so to be confident that your results are real you need a large number of subjects. With mice studies the mice are all genetically identical so they will all respond in the same way and you only need a few mice. Also immune studies in the laboratory are very expensive. The machine that looks at markers on cells so you can identify what cells are in the blood costs £100,000 and the antibodies that you use for each marker are £400 each and if you want to look at a lot of molecules that are produced from the cells then each plate of 78 samples looking at 5 molecules in each sample costs £1,000. usually the study has several hundred subjects so you can understand that you need a lot of money to do this kind of research. the more money you have the more markers you can look at and so the more results you can get.