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Asked by anon-214187 to Helen, Farah, Dave, Cheryl, Bastian, Alun on 17 Jun 2019.
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Dave Underhill answered on 17 Jun 2019:
Not mine personally, but the study of evolution does, particularly evolutionary medicine
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Cheryl Williams answered on 17 Jun 2019:
No, in terms of research, my work does not look for a cure for cancer.
But also yes! When someone is poorly they might go to the doctor to get treatment and find out what’s wrong. The doctor might ask the patient to take a sample like blood or urine (wee). This gets sent into the lab where I work. I do tests on the sample to find out what bacteria (if any) are in the sample, and then advise on what antibiotics to use. This then cures the patients of that infection. Other scientists in my lab look at blood samples and can find out if the patient is suffering from conditions such as diabetes, kidney or liver disease. These diseases aren’t always curable but the work our scientists do is very important in diagnosis of that disease. -
Bastian Saputra answered on 18 Jun 2019:
No, my work is not related to any diseases. I do research about bacteria cells from the soils.
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Farah Elahi answered on 20 Jun 2019:
No my work won’t. What it will help to do is improve people’s wellbeing and mental health overall. In mental health, we don’t say that we can ‘cure’ people since we don’t know all the details of how mental health issues begin (its a combination of genetics and the environment). What we can do right now is help people to manage their condition and help people to make improvements in their life, so people feel better overall.
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