• Question: Does your work benefit humans?

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      Asked by Mia to Ruth on 20 Jun 2016.
      • Photo: Ruth Patchett

        Ruth Patchett answered on 20 Jun 2016:

        At the moment no, apart from me as it is fun to do and learn about. A lot of people are progressing a lot of areas in science everyday, sadly we can’t all be the person to make the “big” discovery but also what we don’t always see is the number of people who did the work building up to that to help it get discovered. So you never know one day my work can help people in the future to carry out their research but for now, it’s fun and interesting to me 🙂

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