• Question: do you think that your work could save lives or help animals and people.If so how. ;)

    Asked by italianmaster to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sarah Burl

      Sarah Burl answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Vaccines have saved more lives than any other medical intervention. I hope that my research will help devlop more vaccines for children and save more lives.

    • Photo: Mark Fogg

      Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I hope it will. One of the bacterial species I work on causes the disease Anthrax. It rarely turns up in the UK, but is everywhere in places like Africa. It kills animals, particularly grazing animals like cows and sheep, as well as humans. Furthermore, in the wrong hands, it can potentially be used as a weapon. I would dearly love to find a way to defeat this quite horrible disease.

    • Photo: Mark Travis

      Mark Travis answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Well, I would like to think so in the long term…… we try and understand the processes that control the immune system. If we can understand what goes wrong in disease, we can try and stop this or put it right with medicines, and so help fight that disease (in humans and animals).

    • Photo: Panos Soultanas

      Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I work on finding out what are the mechanisms that underpin the replication of DNA in bacteria. Understanding these mechanisms at the molecular level will provide more targets for antibiotic development and also help us understand the same process in higher organisms like humans which will be relevant to cancer.

    • Photo: Michael Loughlin

      Michael Loughlin answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      I hope that it will prevent antibiotic resitance being a problem in hospitals and let people know what bacteria may be causing diseases that we might be misidentfying

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