Here a handful of collaborators and graduate students work on the experiments Mancuso devises to test the intelligence of plants.
We have been doing hands-on work on the experiments for the last two years, testing on dozens of ferrets.
This drew a spontaneous round of applause at CERN, and in the auditorium in Westminster where I was watching (along with the Science Minister, many journalists, and many of the people who work on the experiments).
I was surprised at how often they had read some background literature or had searched for other published work on the experiments being proposed.
Dr David Evans who is one of the researchers working on the experiment spoke to the BBC's Ben Brown about his excitement.
The film was even shown on a Chicago television station by the movie critic Gene Siskel, although he noted that he would not pay a dollar to watch it, according to one of the graduate students who worked on the experiment.
"The people who worked on the experiment are no longer even in the headquarters," he said.
Many people have been working on the experiment since the early 1980s and a handful from a decade earlier, their allegiance lasting longing than most marriages.
A special 'shim-cart' has been built to make the measurements: As Mark Lancaster, my colleague at UCL who also works on the experiment, says: "This really marks the start of the experiment's data-taking.
"To reverse diabetes, you need to either take a transplant of the whole pancreas or the islets," said Dr. Desmond Schatz, a professor of pediatrics and a diabetes expert who worked on the experiment.
