• Question: What got you interested in learning about the human body?

    Asked by aaronige to Tom, Jack, Jon, Yalda on 8 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by charliechicken10, ja1pal.
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      anon answered on 8 Mar 2013:

      Honestly, it was kind of by accident. I wanted a job that let me learn cool science things, do lots of writing & get paid. When I started as a medical writer, I knew very little about the human body, but when I started to see what could go wrong with it, I realised for the first time that they are like the biggest, most complicated machine ever invented – and there are billions of them. I guess I am just a biology nerd.

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      Tom Branson answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      I think I’ve always been interested. From playing sport and seeing how fast I could run, and when you get ill and wondering what is going on in my body. Then in science classes you start to know more about muscles and cells and how things work. I do think that it is really interesting because the body is such a big mix of all sorts of molecules, and we all have one slightly different to everbody elses.

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      Jack Heal answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      I’ve always quite liked learning about the human body, but never thought about drugs and things in much detail until I started my PhD. Then I started doing lots of reading about the drugs I’ve been studying and their effects on the body, and it’s built from there. Amazing, all the processes which go on inside you that you’re hardly ever aware of!

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