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Asked by Ola_xoxo to Christie, Dan, David, Dawn, Sian on 16 Jun 2016.
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Dawn Lau answered on 16 Jun 2016:
Right now I’m most interested in how to diagnose dementia as early as possible. I think that’s the main reason why we haven’t been able to find a drug for dementia yet, because all the clinical trials are run with patients who have been diagnosed at a stage when the drug may not be as effective. That’s not something I am working on, but I follow any research updates because I’m really interested in this topic.
Another completely unrelated area of science I absolutely love is food science! I have a food blog on the side and I run geeky things like butter taste tests with my friends and do statistical tests on them. I have lots of books on the science of taste and cooking!
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Sian Thomas answered on 17 Jun 2016:
Ha Dawn! That is so interesting.
I love food science – but at the moment my fascination is with data science and predicting things. I love that I can predict sick bugs but would like to be able to predict lots of other things too – like where the next food poisoning outbreak will be or what will be the next horsemeat issue!
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David Robertson answered on 17 Jun 2016:
Almost any area of science I look at has lots of interesting topics – Dawn and Sian both have really interesting topics.
I really like the big science of the universe – gravity and how it works, can we use black holes to test general relativity in the most extreme conditions. -
Christie Waddington answered on 19 Jun 2016:
Human genetics! I’m fascinated by how DNA codes for a human, and how single changes in the DNA sequence can lead to devastating diseases. Human DNA contains 2 million letters and one change is all it takes to cause a bad disease?! Amazing!
Right now I’m working on how the mitochondria, the batteries of the cell, read their piece of DNA. If we can understand how the DNA is read, we can start researching treatments for people who have mutations in this DNA.
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