• Question: how does your work help people

    Asked by beth14 to Aime, Akshat, Diana, Gemma, Judith on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by gray, laurenjaytinkler, burke, parry, colclough, burman.
    • Photo: Judith McCann

      Judith McCann answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Most research projects have the potential to help many people but since research take such along time, its more like many people contributing to solve one massive problem.

      The help would come in the future to people with diseases that alter the enzymes in the body eg. Diabetes, to release drugs or act as a scaffold for new cells where they are needed in the body

    • Photo: Gemma Sharp

      Gemma Sharp answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      In time, work like mine will help pregnant mothers have healthy babies.

      I’m trying to find out what happens to make women go into labour, both on time and too early. If we can find out how labour starts then we might be able to find drugs to stop people giving birth prematurely.

      Premature birth is the biggest cause of death of newborn babies and can cause serious long term health problems in babies that survive, so it’s important that we try to stop mums going in to labour too early.

    • Photo: Aimé Fournier

      Aimé Fournier answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Please see “how will your investigation benifit humans?” and “will your work save lives”.

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