Why Biologists are important? - Importance of Biologst in laboratories techniques... (Nov/07/2005 )

Why Biologists are important???

Next month I have to give a lesson in a university course and the heading of the lesson is: The importance of biologist in the laboratories techniques.
I am a Brazilian Biologist but the major of students are doctors. How you would demonstrated the importance of a biologist in the laboratories techniques???
Someone have examples (with pictures) to give to me ??? (Something like the errors that can be made if the material will not be correct fixated, errors in immunohistochemistry …

Thank you very much

Please send answer to: garciadu@yahoo.com.br

hi
basically, close friends of me are in medecine doctors (i think it's what you meant by "doctors")
in our discussions, the point that seems relative equal is that they are very good at knowing how to prevent or treat such or such disease, but they are quite little knowing about the really mechanisms that underlie the disease. I've done genetic studies and therefore know some things (and far far about everything ) about proteins and actors that are involved in transcription mechanisms and cell response to signal of extracellular elements. They don't. Example : tamoxifene is given after breast cancer. They know about it,structure effects, undesirable effects... But non one know about the role on TGF beta receptor. I'm not saying that knowing proteins involved in pathways are a major point. Some people don't care and i understand this point of view too.

second point. in my lab, i have a person which is from medecine studies and after them goes on research. A bioloist technician works in the lab too. Discussions are different with these persons. The "doctor" can tell about what your study imples on behavioring of cell/organe. But if i want to know what is the effect of a specific treatment on the cell, or the principle of one step in a protocol, only the technician can tell me.

hi
basically, close friends of me are in medecine doctors (i think it's what you meant by "doctors")
in our discussions, the point that seems relative equal is that they are very good at knowing how to prevent or treat such or such disease, but they are quite little knowing about the really mechanisms that underlie the disease. I've done genetic studies and therefore know some things (and far far about everything ) about proteins and actors that are involved in transcription mechanisms and cell response to signal of extracellular elements. They don't. Example : tamoxifene is given after breast cancer. They know about it,structure effects, undesirable effects... But non one know about the role on TGF beta receptor. I'm not saying that knowing proteins involved in pathways are a major point. Some people don't care and i understand this point of view too.

second point. in my lab, i have a person which is from medecine studies and after them goes on research. A bioloist technician works in the lab too. Discussions are different with these persons. The "doctor" can tell about what your study imples on behavioring of cell/organe. But if i want to know what is the effect of a specific treatment on the cell, or the principle of one step in a protocol, only the technician can tell me.