Question: What has been the best thing about knowing how our body works?

Thomas Biggans answered on 17 Jun 2016:

The best thing about understanding how the body works is being able to help people whose bodies aren’t working properly.

Personally I really like brain scans. I find it amazing how we can see which part of the brain isn’t working and know that’s why the patient is suffering from memory loss. But the brain can change to cope sometimes so we also see it moving certain tasks to different parts of the brain to try and carry on as normal. We work with other scientists to understand why these things happen so we can develop cures and maybe recover some lost memories.