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Asked by anon-288018 to Katie, Jo, Felicity on 10 Mar 2021.
Question: What is a discovery you would love to discover?
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Felicity Hunter answered on 10 Mar 2021:
Hi Luke, excellent question! So we already know that our gut bacteria are important for our immune systems because humans get very sick without them. However, we don’t know what the exact mechanisms behind this are. I want to discover exactly which bacterial species are responsible for protecting our immune systems and what their exact function on our immune system is. For example, what type of molecules do the bacteria release and what effect to these molecules have on our immune systems? Once we know this, we can start to use these bacteria and their molecules as potential treatments for immune diseases!
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Katie Endersby answered on 10 Mar 2021:
Hi Luke, this is a great question! One of the key elements of my work is the knowledge that when chemicals get into water, they might not be great for the environment and organisms that live there. The more discoveries we make about chemicals we use, and about the helpful microbes that live in the environment, the safer we can make the rivers and waterways across the world, and I’d love to help make some of those discoveries!
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Jo Brodie answered on 15 Mar 2021:
Hello Luke – I would quite like to discover a way to make all the things that are bad for us become good for us! A magic cure for all diseases would be wonderful too.
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As a science communicator (someone who writes about science, particularly computer science) I’m perhaps more likely to uncover what other people have been discovering, then I get to tell others about it through our computing magazine or writing other articles.
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If I was working in a lab I’d love to discover a way of making the immune system behave perfectly so that anyone receiving a transplanted organ wouldn’t need to take so much medicine to prevent their own immune system from rejecting the organ.
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Jo
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