I haven’t found any disease cures, but I’m not looking for any either 🙂 I study how lizards give birth to live young. Not all research is medical research. It’s also really important to study how things work in lots of different types of science, because you never how those discoveries will help later down the track.
For example, the discovery of the world’s first antibiotic was an accident – Alexander Fleming found a fungus growing in one of his experiments and noticed that it killed the bacteria he was studying. So it’s always worth finding out new information about lots of different things, not just trying to find cures for diseases
We research a disease called Bilharzia which affects 400 million people. We didn’t discover the drug, but we did just discover a way to make the drug so that it doesn’t make people sick, and so that it doesn’t taste terrible (kind of important if you want people to take it).
Next thing we’re going to try – getting everyone together on the web to help find a new drug for malaria. Getting started in about a month! Very excited. It’ll all be online so you can see how we’re getting on.
I’m not involved in medical research so I won’t ever find a cure for diseases. I hope this isn’t too disappointing to you. Though my research is looking at ways of better communicating science and and it could help scientists in medical research by hopefully providing new ways of sharing ideas and information.
My research is in the chemistry, which is the study of the properties of matter and how those properties (and substances) change as substances undergo chemical change. In the old days, drugs were made by chemists and chemical companies, which is why in places like Britain and Australia, pharmacists are wrongly called chemists. The Americans get some things wrong, they are are absolutely right when they go to the drugstore (not the chemist shop) to buy medication.
The type of chemistry which I do is not related to biomedical science, so I do not work on pharmaceuticals or diseases.
I haven’t found a cure for any diseases yet. The projects I’ve worked on have been more about finsing out the basic information so that later someone else can use that to work on a cure. I have studied a protein that helps viruses infect our cells and another one which might help to stop cancer cells from moving around the body. The protein I am working on now is part of our immune system and might be important for recognising nasty bugs which get inside our cells.
I haven’t found any disease cures, but I’m not looking for any either 🙂 I study how lizards give birth to live young. Not all research is medical research. It’s also really important to study how things work in lots of different types of science, because you never how those discoveries will help later down the track.
For example, the discovery of the world’s first antibiotic was an accident – Alexander Fleming found a fungus growing in one of his experiments and noticed that it killed the bacteria he was studying. So it’s always worth finding out new information about lots of different things, not just trying to find cures for diseases
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We research a disease called Bilharzia which affects 400 million people. We didn’t discover the drug, but we did just discover a way to make the drug so that it doesn’t make people sick, and so that it doesn’t taste terrible (kind of important if you want people to take it).
Next thing we’re going to try – getting everyone together on the web to help find a new drug for malaria. Getting started in about a month! Very excited. It’ll all be online so you can see how we’re getting on.
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I’m not involved in medical research so I won’t ever find a cure for diseases. I hope this isn’t too disappointing to you. Though my research is looking at ways of better communicating science and and it could help scientists in medical research by hopefully providing new ways of sharing ideas and information.
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My research is in the chemistry, which is the study of the properties of matter and how those properties (and substances) change as substances undergo chemical change. In the old days, drugs were made by chemists and chemical companies, which is why in places like Britain and Australia, pharmacists are wrongly called chemists. The Americans get some things wrong, they are are absolutely right when they go to the drugstore (not the chemist shop) to buy medication.
The type of chemistry which I do is not related to biomedical science, so I do not work on pharmaceuticals or diseases.
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I haven’t found a cure for any diseases yet. The projects I’ve worked on have been more about finsing out the basic information so that later someone else can use that to work on a cure. I have studied a protein that helps viruses infect our cells and another one which might help to stop cancer cells from moving around the body. The protein I am working on now is part of our immune system and might be important for recognising nasty bugs which get inside our cells.
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