1. FUTURE JOBS READERS
Level 1-③
Medical Scientists

2. What Is a Medical Scientist?
What do medical scientist do?
Medical scientists learn about the body and how it works. Then they try to find ways to help sick people. Some medical scientists do experiments to find new medicines.
A medical scientist using a microscope
Weighing chemicals
DNA strands

3. Preparation of a Medical Scientist
What do you have to do to become a medical scientist?
Studying science
To become a medical scientist, a student goes to university for many years.
What do students study to become medical scientists?
Medical science students study chemistry, biology, and math. They also spend many hours in laboratories.

4. What is something medical scientists often use in laboratories?
In the Laboratory
What is something medical scientists often use in laboratories?
Medical scientists often use microscopes.
Under a microscope, small things like cells look big.
Medical scientists can study cells with a microscope to learn about diseases and how the body grows.
Looking into a microscope
test tubes
microscope
Skin cells seen under a microscope

5. What else can medical scientists study with microscopes?
Bacteria
Bacteria
Experimenting in a lab
What else can medical scientists study with microscopes?
Medical scientists can study bacteria with microscopes. They can study how these bacteria make people sick. If they understand bacteria, then they can start to make a medicine to kill the bacteria.

6. Danger in the Laboratory
How do medical scientists stay safe in laboratories?
There are dangerous things in laboratories.
Medical scientists wear gloves to keep their hands safe.
They also wear special glasses to keep their eyes safe.
Some medical scientists even have to wear special clothes in their laboratories.
Safety goggles
Wearing gloves, a mask, and glasses
An eye wash in a lab
Medical safety clothes

7. Medical Scientists: Helping People
Technology used in a medical lab
An x-ray showing a machine inside a man that helps his heart
A prosthetic hand
How can medical scientists today help people?
Medical scientists have found many ways to help people.
If you hurt your hand, medical scientists can use cells to grow new skin for your hand.
If you have a problem with your heart, medical scientists can put little machines into your body to help your heart.
If you lose an arm or leg, medical scientists make a new arm or leg for you.

8. A Bright Future in Medical Science
Who is a famous medical scientist?
Dr. Craig Venter is a famous medical scientist. He says he can make cells in his laboratory. He also has a machine that sends DNA to another machine to be “made again.”
Dr. Craig Venter
Will scientists grow babies in labs?
Will smartphones send holograms in the future?

9. Other Skills for Medical Scientists
Other than knowing math and science, what other skills are good for a medical scientists?
Working in a lab
Medical scientists should also
like to make new things.
like to find answers.
be good with their hands.
want to help people.
A team of medical scientists

10. Vocabulary disease n. experiment n.
an illness; something that makes you sick
experiment n.
an organized plan for testing an idea, usually written down to be shared with others

11. Vocabulary mask n. medical test adj.
a covering of wire, gauze, etc., to protect the face, as from splinters, dust, or a pitched ball
medical test adj.
involving hospitals, doctors, and medicine

12. Vocabulary medicine n. internet n.
a pill or liquid taken to make a person feel better when they are sick
internet n.
a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide

13. Vocabulary laboratory adj. university n.
a room where people do experiments
university n.
an institution where students study for degrees and where academic research is done