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From Scientist to Shareholder: Why do it?

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In Natural Sciences, students often struggle to understand and apply science topics, and have difficulties imagining or realizing their importance and application in real life. Sandra Tarré is a Secondary Natural Science teacher. Career choice. Pictures provided by the author (Attribution CC-By). About the authors.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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From well-resourced pharmaceutical companies in the UK and USA, to low-resourced hospital labs in Malawi, I learned how to think about how to apply my research to benefit patients, and to make sure we’re working on problems that will help the world.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Computational tools are used throughout the pharmaceutical industry. The models that Sarah creates help to solve this problem.