• Question: what is your favorte subject in science??

    Asked by boss06 to Amar, Ana, Andrea, Leah, Matt on 17 Mar 2014.
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      Anastasia Wass answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      My favourite subject is evolution because it helps explain alot of why things are like they are.
      I started studying science because I was curious about how and why things happened and I find evolution helps describe alot of this!

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      Matthew Lam answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      My favourite subject to study is cancer biology (of course!). In particular, I enjoy learning about how cells work and how their genetics control how they behave.

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      Amar Joshi answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      That is such a broad question!!! I guess it changes with time.

      At school I really like the experiments that we did in Chemistry but I liked the Biology teachers too. They made Biology fun.

      This is why I did Biochemistry at University – it puts chemistry in a biological setting.

      I am now looking at the atomic interactions between a potential drug and its target which requires me to know lots about the biology of the cancer target and chemistry behind inter-molecular interactions.

      I think you can see that Biology and Chemistry are still my favourite subjects!!

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      Andrea Hanvey answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Biology was my favourite at school. Then during my degree I decided to be a biomedical scientist. Biomedical scientist work in hospital labs doing tests on patient samples. There are different labs, histopathology, cytology, microbiology , virology, immunology, biochemistry , and haematology transfusion science. I loved histopathology and still do, it’s the study of diseased tissues! So I study and work diagnosing lots of diseases mainly cancer.

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      Leah Fitzsimmons answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      My favourite area to study is infectious diseases because I think it is fascinating how something tiny, like a bacterium or virus can cause a person made of trillions of cells, to get sick. Apart from finding it amazing how these tiny infectious bugs – called pathogens by scientists- work, it will help us to learn more about the reasons why people get sick in general. I would also love to help find cures or vaccines for infectious diseases because they affect so many people: causing almost 15 million deaths in 2004 alone.
      At the moment I work on a virus, called EBV, that can be involved in some cancers to try and figure out how the virus becomes harmful and how to stop it. If I didn’t work on that I would want to work on Trypanosomes, which are parasitic worms that cause sleeping sickness, which is fatal if it is not caught early.

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