My name is Sara, and welcome to Biological Babble! Here, I’ll be summarising primary biological literature and criticising them.

But Sara, are you qualified?

Well, my friends, I graduated from Queen Mary University of London in 2021 with a BSc Hons in Biology , and subsequently graduated with an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from the same university as well!

Throughout my degrees, I have read and evaluated countless pieces of biological research spanning from evolutionary biology and physiology to epigenetics and oncology.

My future intentions from here onwards are to complete a PhD specialising in cancer research then to become a postgraduate cancer researcher.

How come you want to do cancer research after doing Biology and Biological Sciences degrees? They sound non-specific? What led you to pursue cancer research?

Good question, me!

I specialised in a 7-month research project during my MSc at the CRUK Barts Cancer Institute (BCI). It was intensive, and I was researching breast cancer at the level of PhD. I enjoyed it and found deep meaning in it. My family have a thorough history with cancer, so I’ve lost a lot of people and a lot of my role models that I grew up with passed from it. A truly terrible disease, and I can make some difference if I use my love for learning and my research skills and biological thinking.

I also used to write on https://superfruitscience.wordpress.com before university. I like to focus on ecology, evolution, biochemistry and a little bit of other stuff here and there. Yeah… I’ve been quite busy, had some wild times, made life-long friends. It’s why I’ve been so dead quiet, oops.

One day I had a thought: time to get back on the grind, but differently this time. Thus, I’m here on a new blog: Biological Babble.

I’ll be doing similar posts to the Superfruit Science blog, but hopefully more sophisticated and also more helpful for my future career.

Feel free to contact me at othman_sara@outlook.com for any topics you want me to cover, or just to chat!

I love to babble, it’s in my biology!