• Question: if you had the choice to work with one famous scientist {it can be a past scientist who isnt living at the moment} who would u pick x

    Asked by erin ní lochlainn to Fiana, Remsha, Oliver, Lisa, Kieran, David on 5 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by LEGO Batman.
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      Fiana answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      That’s a tough one, but for me it would have to be Rosalind Franklin. She was the first person to see the structure of DNA under the microscope. I can’t imagine what it must have felt like to know you are the first person to see something so incredible! I would love to be able to tell her all of the amazing things that her discovery has led to! Do you have a favourite scientist 🙂 ?

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      Remsha Afzal answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Emmanuelle Charpentier. She was involved with another scientist called Jennifer Doudna in discovering how to use a part of the bacterial immune system for scientific experiments. This part was called CRISPR/Cas9. They can basically be used as scissors to cut out or insert pieces of DNA into our genes so that can greatly help us understand diseases where some genes are faulty. Because of her discovery, Time Magazine called her one of the 100 most influential people in the world (together with Jennifer Doudna).

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    Lisa commented on :

    It would have to be Sidney Farber, a very famous scientist from New York who worked on childhood cancer in the 1940s. He was the first person to use chemotherapy to successfully treat children with leukemia (a type of blood cancer). As a result, this led to the development of lots of different chemotherapy drugs, which are still used today!

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    Remsha commented on :

    There are just so many inspiring scientists out there!! Such a difficult question! I think for now I’d go with Emmanuelle Charpentier. She and Jennifer Doudna basically discovered that you can use a component of the bacterial immune system, called CRISPR/Cas9, to make precise cuts in a person or animal’s DNA! This was a BIG step forward for molecular biology! Because now scientists can use the CRISPR/Cas technology to ”edit” DNA in the lab by removing different parts of it, and see how that affects a cell’s functions. That is super important for figuring out what parts of DNA do what, an if we can use that to our advantage in treating diseases.

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    Kieran commented on :

    For me it would a doctor called Dorothy Price – she promoted the use of the BCG vaccine for TB in Ireland. She was also the first to recommend that doctors and vets should work together to solve the problem – something that we are still trying to make work today.

    Read more at:https://dh.tcd.ie/pricediary/about-dorothy-price-her-family/dorothy-stopford-price-and-the-irish-tuberculosis-epidemic/