I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Disease Zone. It has scientists studying the causes and processes of illness . Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Paleontologists have found fossils of dinosaurs with tumours, so it’s by no means a new disease. Cancer is caused by mutations to DNA that cause cells to grow and divide out of control, so the first case of cancer in an organism couldn’t have been that long after the emergence of multicellular organisms with distinct tissues.
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