• Question: how will your work affect the future

    Asked by udtasteve to Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An, Michelle on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by grace14.
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      Darren Nesbeth answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Cheaper medicines.

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      Lori-An Etherington answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I am not sure how my work would directly affect the future. I am involved in the early stages of drug development so if a chemical that I had worked on eventually made it into clinical use I would have played a small part in this.

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      Deuan Jones answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I hope the work me and my colleagues do will result in better treatments for diseases in the developing world, and better ways of diagnosing diseases.

      Science can be a bit random though so you never know – sometimes the research we do on one topic helps a completely different field of research. Like one antibacterial that turned out to kill the parasite causing malaria was used in toothpaste and soap first, and one of the best treatments for African sleeping sickness is a drug that was discovered for use in cancer.

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