• Question: what type of people is your research directed towards??

    Asked by anon-361207 on 30 Mar 2023.
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      Courtney Povey answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      My research is aimed at patients going through IVF so people struggling to achieve pregnany or couples that both carry a mutation that means they could pass this onto a child. We can do genetic tests on embryos to ensure they do not have these mutations and then we can do other tests that try to improve the chances of a successful pregnancy such as testing if the embryo is genetically stable or that the uterus of the mother is an optimal environment for a pregnancy.

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      Kirstie Andrews answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      Everyone! My research involves finding more information about disease, injury and medical challenges, and how to treat these more effectively. It looks at giving people better quality of life, which affects everyone and should be directed at people from all backgrounds, countries, ages.

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      Benjamin Foster answered on 31 Mar 2023:

      I guess mostly aimed at providing data to inform designing therapeutics for cancer drugs much further down the line. Working out how a healthy cell prevents DNA damage persisting is really important for lots of diseases and there are currently drugs in clinical trials targeting exactly that when it goes wrong.

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      Edward Guy answered on 31 Mar 2023:

      Most of my research is directed towards what are termed ‘clinically vulnerable groups’. These are either people whose immune system is not working properly and can’t protect them from infections, such as AIDS patients, people with cancer, and organ transplant recipients, or those whose immune system has not yet fully developed (unborn children and young infants). These are the groups for whom an infection that would otherwise be of no threat to most of us, could be life-threatening to them.

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