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Biology Personal Statement For Biology

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My aspirations as a biologist are driven by my fascination with Biology, and with how data can be used to understand and manipulate biological systems. At the frontiers of Bioinformatics and Genetics is where synthetic biology thrives as a powerful platform for many solutions to real-life problems. Most notably, it has vivified the way we conduct research on complex diseases. When multiple genetic and environmental factors come into play and where a greater wealth of data lies within reach, I find my ambitions in research to lie within synthetic biology.
The more experience I have in research, the more I am intrigued and humbled by the idiosyncrasies that riddle all living organisms. My Final Year Project (FYP), also my first foray into research, …show more content…

In these places, I saw many elderly people robbed of their independence. As I spent more time with the elderly at Alzheimer’s Disease Association and other elderly care facilities, it became harder to be unaffected by their physical and emotional turmoil. Spending time with them was also an eye-opener to the general state of palliative care in Singapore. I realised that there were more ways for me to alleviate the toll of these diseases, other than being a volunteer. Accordingly, I was spurred to learn more about personalised medicine and managed to seize the opportunity to spend my gap year doing so. In a research collaboration between Ngee Ann Polytechnic and the Singapore General Hospital, I was tasked with the development of a microarray for the detection of variants associated with Parkinson disease. Selection of these variants was guided by various lines of experimental evidence from previous experiments and is currently confidential information. Annotating these variants, designing their respective probes as well as the layout of the microarray itself were some of the steep learning curves in this project for me. Though challenging, I was eager to push myself to hone my skills in Bioinformatics and Genetics. Pushing the pilot studies out and trying to achieve our project deliverables before my gap year ends will also be an exercise in my own efficiency and

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