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Asked by maegz to Diana, Judith, Aime, Akshat, Gemma on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by lauren15, komalx, alyssa01, mawish, katie11, starrlydster, burke, colclough, iheartmisswoods, hahaman02.
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Gemma Sharp answered on 13 Jun 2011:
In time, work like mine will help pregnant mothers have healthy babies. If babies are born healthy then they are more likely to grow up healthy.
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.
There are loads of scientists all round the world working on this, and my project is just one of many that will help us reduce the number of babies being born too early.
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Judith McCann answered on 13 Jun 2011:
hopefully, we can treat diseases more efficiently-so patients can get back to good health sooner, and drugs can get to where they are needed faster.
This would be important in things like chemotherapy, where the drugs affect the whole body, but if they could be targeted to only affect the cancer it would be far better for the patient!
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Akshat Rathi answered on 14 Jun 2011:
Hopefully my work will allow me to develop methods that can be used to build better medicines.
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Aimé Fournier answered on 14 Jun 2011:
This is an extremely important question. Many scientists aim at benefiting humans, but it’s not so easy. I believe eventually my work (combined with many others) will enable much more accurate weather and climate predictions. However since I started, I learned that such outcomes don’t only depend on science. They involve thousands of scientists experimenting, competing, taking chances, changing courses etc. and as with anything people do, there are surprises.
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