• Question: What type of science is your main department?

    Asked by anon-266991 to Carissa on 6 Nov 2020.
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      Carissa Wong answered on 6 Nov 2020:

      Hey! The type of science I work in is called Immunology (understanding the immune system), and more specifically ‘Cancer Immunology’ – understanding how cancer and the immune system interact. I work in a building called the ‘Biomedical Building’ which includes lots of different types of science related to the human body, with the aim of improving human health!

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    Romain commented on :

    Hey, the lab where I work is called LMCB, standing for Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology, which means that we try to understand how cells work by looking at what individual molecules do in them, both in healthy cells and in diseases like cancer, or during ageing, or during infection with a virus. It’s really important because drugs (and vaccines) are also typically types of molecules that will act directly on the cells or the microbe to stop or slow down diseases!

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    Sarah commented on :

    The type of science I work in is called Computational Biology. We use computers and statistics to look at many kinds of data. We use these to build models to explain what we think is happening in the DNA, cells, organs, or diseases that we study. My main study is in cancer and I mostly try to model how changes, called “mutations” in DNA cause cancer and how we could use this information to treat or even prevent cancer.

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    Tammy commented on :

    My lab works in an area know as cellular pathology – we basically collect and study pieces of tissue from breast cancer tumours to see if we can find better ways to treat patients. This type of research is know as Translational Medicine (i.e. Translating research in the lab into actual medicinal techniques to be used in a clinic).

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    Emily commented on :

    Hey, type of science in my main department is called Immunology. This is the study of how the immune system fights infection. The immune system is made from cells inside our body that are constantly looking our for invading viruses, bacteria and other pathogens like fungi! Our department looks at how they find these deadly invades and kill them.