Question: Do you ever make a mistake in an experiment?

Yalda Javadi answered on 18 Mar 2013:

Of course! 🙂

Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes they’re silly mistakes and you learn from them… and other times the mistakes can reveal something that you didn’t know you were looking for! For example, I once added acid to my protein instead of an alkali… and then found out that my protein loved acid and became a cool structure under acid conditions… I wouldn’t have known that without making the ‘mistake’!