• Question: does your rearch benefit all people, or just a specific group?

    Asked by singhiskinng96 to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Kerstin Zechner answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      My research doesn’t directly benefit people as it is basic research – trying to understand how a cellular process works rather than finding an application for something. Indirectly, I’d hope that it would eventually find some kind of application that would be researched by another lab.

    • Photo: Kay Penicud

      Kay Penicud answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      Hopefully anyone with cancer!

    • Photo: Chris Needham

      Chris Needham answered on 19 Mar 2010:

      Hi, potentially it could be applied in such a way to benefit all people for food production in crops, or personalise medicine.

    • Photo: Olivia Hibbitt

      Olivia Hibbitt answered on 19 Mar 2010:

      Hey singhiskinng96,

      my research is go to most directly benefit people with familial hypercholesterolaemia….BUT the things I develop could help people who have any kind of genetic disease…..there is research into gene therapy going on for conditions like parkinsons to cystic fibrosis!!!

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