• Question: If you could go into one a different area of sciene what would it be?

    Asked by anon-326056 to Karin on 17 May 2022.
    • Photo: Karin Purshouse

      Karin Purshouse answered on 17 May 2022:

      I think it would be to study the immune system (I hope this isn’t cheating as I realise its still technically biology!) – it’s really important in cancer and it would be interesting to understand more about how it works.
      Outside of biology – hmmm. I never studied physics (I did double science GCSE) so maybe I’d pick that, because it comes up a surprising amount in my work. For example, I’ve started looking at radiotherapy in my research and am having to learn the basic physics from scratch!

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  • Photo: Emer

    Emer commented on :

    Astrophysics! The solar system (and beyond!) are really interesting and I’m sure I’m not the only person who got interested in science as a child partially by looking up at the stars and wondering what was going on.