Satisfying my scientific cravings

They say that scientists make good cooks – reagents become ingredients, methods become recipe instructions, and even better, you get to eat your results! There’s no doubt about it, cooking scratches that scientist’s itch.

Well, the same is true of scientific writing; you can never squash a scientist’s yearning for knowledge, and being a writer for a life science marketing agency keeps your scientific curiosity well and truly piqued. In one day, you can be interviewing a professor in chemistry, writing a blog about plastics, and reading up on immunology….and that’s just the morning!

It can be science you know and have studied for many years, or science you’ve barely even heard of – but that doesn’t matter – the point is it sparks your interest and satisfies your inborn scientific cravings. It’s sometimes a shame there’s nothing edible at the end of it, but then there’s always the local M&S Food for cake……