September 9, 2004
A: FROM STUDENT MEMBER SYLVIA P. IN CA
If I were given a million dollars, I would use it in science, specifically bioengineering. I would study hypertension and the genes that cause it in order to find preventions. It is important to me because my whole mother's family suffers from hypertension. I once did research on it for my biology project and found that hypertension is one of the most deadly killers. This is so because its effects are not very noticeable, so this condition is often overlooked. I would like to collaborate with bioengineers (I believe "bioengineers" is what the people who perform genetic research are called, but I am not too sure,) in order to assist them in trying to figure out the gene that possibly can be altered to prevent the formation of the disease.