What type of medical science do you do ? How does it help/effect people ?

Question: What type of medical science do you do ? How does it help/effect people ?
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Asked by Olivia to Loan, Cristina, Gemma, Michael, Praveen on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by TJackson, 947hrtd24.
- Cristina Villa del Campo answered on 9 Nov 2015:
  
  Hi Olivia,
  
  I do science that is what we call “basic” because we don’t work directly with patients. We want to understand how the cells work to see if we can develop drugs to cure people in the future, but at the moment we work in understanding how things work and what of those things we could use in patients.

Question: What type of medical science do you do ? How does it help/effect people ?