How Did You Get Interested in Biology From a Young Age?

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Being disabled and ond having like, medical conditions has led me to try to explore a lot of biology. I think for most people, sites cenicer based on the fact that i wiked comis to but i didn't want to do like lat sience,. Can i do more math? She says, it's 16. Math will always be there for you. And math is in everything. It's all around us, like ghosts who make sense and have her back. Slowly migrateand wor toward biology when i realize that miss wayword, itresting.

Biological mysteries solved with numbers! Graphs! Patterns! Data points! Systems biology! You never knew it existed, yet it’s keeping us alive. Systems Biologist Dr. Emily E. Ackerman join to chat about why the field appealed to her, how her work shifted during the pandemic, why she wants to scream at Excel sometimes, how computing might replace specific types of animal testing, accessibility in STEM, the immune system, why she loves being a disabled scientist and advocate, the ethics of CRISPR, and some really nice guy named Doug.

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