Is working as a biotechnologist a rubbish job compared to biomedical scientist?
well I did a degree in biotechnology and I work in medical research (breast and prostate cancer). Before that i’ve worked in another breast cancer lab and also on male infertility. The sort of job you do depends more on the content of your degree and what you do with it once you’re finished. My degree was ‘biotechnology’, but concentrated on cellular and molecular biology and biochemistry. Others doing the biomed science degree at my uni did a lot more anatomy and the like, but weren’t so good at the molecular stuff because it wasn’t covered as well. In the medical research institutes I’ve worked in, being able to clone a gene into a plasmid, mutate a bit of it to knock out a function, do some tests to confirm your change had the desired effect, then transfect it into some cells and assess the effects is far more useful than being able to name all the bones in the human body. But that difference may well have been specific to my uni. The best advice I can say is check the content of th
