• Question: Is what you do useful in day to day life?

    Asked by ccrellin to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 14 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Nicholson

      Kate Nicholson answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      Ultimately yes, right now, no. The nano crystals I make are predictably the most stable form of crystals. This is useful to drug companies for getting the right product in the pills they produce and at the right dose, because if the crystal form changes between making and taking, the solubility will change vastly and result on over or under dose.

    • Photo: Rowena Fletcher-Wood

      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      The same as Kate – my work has applications for cleaning wastewater and preventing cancer, water being something we do use day to day. But my day to day lab work isn’t useful RIGHT NOW – part of the idea of research is looking for new things and we just simply don’t find them that quickly!

    • Photo: Nicola Rogers

      Nicola Rogers answered on 15 Mar 2014:

      Again – my research is not useful in day-t0-day life right now – but it is in development to perhaps have impact in the future – my PhD research is looking at making nanoparticles that we can track in cells because they fluoresce, and then the idea is to attach drug molecules to the particles to see if they can be used to deliver medicine to certain cells – Nanomedicine is a large field of science, and much development is being perfomed in this area, looking mainly to improve the delivery of cancer treatments

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