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Post-7 How can your studies make the world a better place

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 Hello! My name is Francisca Arce and I study chemistry and pharmacy. My career is developed in different areas, each of them as important as the other, as well as in hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, industries, etc. In this context of a pandemic, my career can shine a lot, since pharmaceutical chemists are in charge of clinical studies of vaccines against the SARS-CoVs-2 virus. They monitor the vaccines and monitor the effects produced by them. Pharmaceutical chemists are the drug experts, their job is to inform the population about the rational use of drugs and their correct use, that self-medication is not good and they should always attend the doctor first. A task of pharmacists is the investigation of different compounds that could help improve the health of the population and its diversity In the future I see myself in a laboratory, working to improve the health of the population or finding a cure for cancer!

Post 6- A person expert in your field that you admire

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 Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist and crystallographer. She had a great contribution in science with her experiments based on X-rays, such as carbon and its various structures such as graphite and diamond. This was the greatest discovery and great contribution to science was the so-called Photograph 51, which was the first time that DNA was dissolved. This photograph gave way to great advances in science in the field of genetics Rosalind Franklin Photograph-51 When I was in school, my Biology teacher told me about this important woman in the world of science and how it was that her fame was stolen from her great discovery. Watson and Crick were two scientists who dedicated their lives to studies on the DNA molecule, they worked together at the University of Cambridge. Both had the postulate and theory that DNA was composed of an antiparallel double helix, but they had no way to prove it. My professor told us that Watson and Crick had sneaked into Rosalind's lab and stole the