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Asked by Ana to Alex, Carmel, Kath, Sean, Steve, Valerie on 12 Nov 2017.
Question: What do you know about Biomedical Science (Microbiology)?
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Stephen Lang answered on 12 Nov 2017:
Not a huge amount I’m afraid, small living things seen through a microscope!
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Kathryn Thomas answered on 13 Nov 2017:
I do some microbiology in my research! Its pretty cool although I’m definitely not an expert. Biomedical Science as far as I understand it is studying bioloogy, chemistry, biochemistry and physics to help you understand how the body works. I did some of that in my degree 🙂 Did you have any more specific questions?
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Carmel Howe answered on 13 Nov 2017:
honestly, not that much but prospects and NHS website have job profiles
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/biomedical-scientist
https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/Explore-roles/healthcare-science/roles-healthcare-science/life-sciences/microbiology -
Valerie Bentivegna answered on 13 Nov 2017:
I don’t know that much about microbiology, I had some courses at uni that were related, but I’m not really using it in my research right now.
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Alex Moldovan answered on 13 Nov 2017:
I know that they are very important to our current cutting-edge technology as we start to move away from physical properties of minerals and metals. We require more complex structures that only nature can produce with millions of years of evolution.
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Ana commented on :
Do you need to know lots of physics to become a biomedical scientist?
Valerie commented on :
Hi Ana, it would depend a bit on the type of biomedical science you would be doing. In some fields (like for example drug discovery), biology and chemistry would be more important. There are definitely bits of biomedical science that don’t involve too much physics.
Ana commented on :
Thank you