• Question: How would your work benifit us?

    Asked by JessGeek7 to Aimee, Gemma, Hussain, Robert, Ross on 16 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Aimee Goodall

      Aimee Goodall answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      Jess you really do have a bunch of great questions 😀
      I work with a type of metal called steel, looking out how to make it as strong as possible.
      When you have a steel which is strong it can be used for a number of different things, like sky scrappers and trucks.
      My work would mean that the products made with steel would be better, they wouldn’t need to be replaced as often and be more fit for the job 😀

    • Photo: Ross King

      Ross King answered on 17 Nov 2015:

      My work looks at how our immune systems work. The immune system is very good at stopping us from getting diseases (most of the time), but sometimes it can do more harm than good.

      I want to know what happens when the immune system doesn’t do what it’s supposed to. For example, the cells I am interested in (neutrophils) are fantastic killers of bacteria, but they can also damage our blood vessels to make them very leaky, allowing fluid in the blood to leak out into the organs. People in hospital cannot afford to have leaky blood vessels, especially in places like the lung, as they can often die from choking on their own fluid.

      If I can work out why things like this happen, I can maybe help to create new medicines to stop these things from happening. That way, hopefully less people will die from quite simple problems.

      Do you think this would help? I hope so! :p

    • Photo: Hussain Jaffery

      Hussain Jaffery answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      Great question. My work will hopefully figure out the role of protein in bone health.

      This protein is 1 out of 100,000 proteins in the human body, but it’s quite important. Thus I see myself paining the tiny puzzle piece that is this protein and fitting it in, into the larger half-finished puzzle that is our understanding of bone biology.

      Once we have complete understanding of bone biology, we should be able easily treat any diseases.

      In the meantime, before we get to the end goal of understand all of the proteins in bone cells, we could target this protein now with a medicine and reap the benefits.

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