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From Scientist to Shareholder: Why do it?

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It is therefore vital that students see the benefits – for themselves and their societies – of learning national sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics. 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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The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says. Each time we make changes, we test what is and isn’t successful, and use that data to help improve designs until we can successfully engineer microbes to produce the desired product,” he says.

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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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Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. TALK LIKE A RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER. One area of research computing that is in high demand is research software engineering.