• Question: will your work affect the environment? xxx

    Asked by ilovegingers to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by fernando0495, samwatsonprice, tanito96, looneymidget, anthony192, angela191208, simge28, jessica23, tugii.
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      Steven Kiddle answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      The works pretty environmentally friendly, we do use some disposable plastics which isn’t great but is essential. If you mean the research itself then i think it will not affect the environment at all, treatments to increase the resistance of a crop to disease will only be applied to a farmers field and so shouldn’t affect things outside of that field. I hope that answers your question 🙂

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      Louise Johnson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Probably not directly.

    • Photo: Sian Harding

      Sian Harding answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Not really, I’m focussed on health and disease

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      Michaela Livingstone answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      My work has no real effect on the environment. We do throw out a lot of plastic stuff, but in the grand scheme of things I think that’s neutralised by how much other stuff we recycle. In terms of my work itself – I work on human pathways that control how genes get switched on and off, so if anything it COULD one day lead to treatments of cancer, meaning more people might survive and so the earth will be more populated… is that bad for the environment? SOME might argue so… but for me it’s a very very loose link. So the short answer is… no 🙂

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      Yvette Wilson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      yes, in a good way. making fuel from waste parts of crops reduces fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions, and the fuel that will be produced will be cleaner and more efficient than petrol and diesel.

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