• Question: Does study of the human body involve all the sciences? obviosly Biology plays a big part but are chemistry and physics used at all?

    Asked by thatcoa99 to Alan on 18 Jun 2013.
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      Alan Richardson answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      As you say much of it is human biology, but yes i also use a lot of chemistry, known as biochemistry. We measure lots of blood and muscle samples so to measure the content of hormones and proteins in these we need to use biochemistry to measure them.

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