- Anna Khot
Honeybees are being trained to detect drugs and explosives, sometimes at concentrations equivalent to a single grain of salt dissolved in an Olympic-sized swimming pool. But how and why are they being trained? Anna Khot finds out...
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- Hakim Yadi
Usually, when the immune system meets something foreign, the offending intruder is swiftly attacked and neutralised. Thankfully things are different during pregnancy. But how does a baby developing in the uterus slip under its mother's immunological radar...
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- Karen Smith
By the year 2020, the number of people in the world suffering from blindness will have risen to 45 million. The vast majority of these cases will be caused by untreated cataract. Caused by problems with some of the longest-lived proteins in the body called crystallins.
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- Harriet Dickinson
What will the vaccines of tomorrow look like? Recent advances in crop technology mean that we are able to produce vaccines in plants. But would you eat a vaccine? Harriet Dickinson looks at the pros and cons of this novel method of drug delivery and asks whether this technology will be turning up on the menu any time soon...
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- Bob Bury
Radiologist Bob Bury puts the case for screening the population for preventable, and less preventable, diseases. and looks at the strong emotions it can create.
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- Jamil Bacha
Transposons are pieces of DNA that have jumped their way around our genome throughout evolution. What are transposons, how have they shaped us,
and how much of our DNA do we actually use ?
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- Julia Santomauro
Sleep paralysis researcher Julia Santomauro explores the phenomenon of sleep paralysis including what is sleep paralysis, what causes sleep paralysis, how
common is it, and are there any treatments for sleep paralysis ?
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- Barry Gibb
Are the days of private thoughts numbered? A new development in neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), sees thoughts, or visualises wh
ich parts of your brain do what.
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- Philip Strange
Surprising as it sounds, one of the world's top tipples a century ago was laced with cocaine. And although the manufacturers have changed the recipe in recent years, Coca Cola is still a market leader, but why was the cocaine there in the first place, and where does the drug come from?
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- Barry Gibb
Dr. Barry Gibb, Scientist and Author, Latest Play - MACHINA
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