• Question: Why did you get into science?

    Asked by William to Duncan, Jayne, Sajid on 16 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Sajid Javed

      Sajid Javed answered on 16 Nov 2017:

      when i was growing up there were two major breakthroughs. 1) dolly the sheep – the first cloned animal and 2) sequencing of the human genome. Both of these were major breakthroughs and highlighted what can be possible. the sequencing of the human genome has opened up and transformed science in a massive way. a lot of the recent breakthroughs in cancer and other human disease have steamed from this and the discoveries yet to be made in cancer will be from this project.

    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 17 Nov 2017:

      When I was a kid, I used to take things apart to see how they worked. I was good at taking them apart, and I could generally see how they fit together and what each bit did, but I wasn’t great at putting them back together again so that they’d work. My parents weren’t thrilled about that part. Later on, when we started doing science at school, I got that same feeling, because for me science feels like taking the world apart inside your head to see how it works, and because you do it inside your head you don’t have to put it back together again afterwards.

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