It’s been a while since I posted, so I thought it was about time I wrote something. And what better to write about, than what I spend every day working on!
If you studied biology in school may remember this: DNA 
RNA Protein.
Proteins do almost everything in the cell. Anything you can think of, a protein does it.
Generate energy? Protein.
Shuttle things around? Protein.
Repair damage? Protein.
At any one time, a cell has tens of millions of proteins, all working to keep the cell healthy and functioning as it should. It’s a mind-boggling operation, and it is happening in every one of your cells right now. When you consider that you have trillions of cells (there are more cells in your hand than there are people on earth!), the staggering complexity is difficult to grasp.
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As part of a speaker’s package we put together for the festival, I wrote a few things about how people can make their presentations more engaging for the public. Explaining complex science is sometimes a difficult thing to do, so below are a few suggestions to help scientists make their public talks as good as their scientific ones! 