- Chris Smith
A material designed originally to help rockets blast into space (Cytomatrix) is now helping scientists in America to grow stem cells in large numbers outside the body, potentially ushering in a new field of medicine where doctors prescribe cells rather than drugs.
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- Manjir Samanta-Laughton
What is consciousness, how does the brain generate the experience of consciousness, and how are scientists trying to unravel a subject, traditionally termed 'the hard problem, which has frustrated the best minds for decades ?
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- Gene Mascoli
The Chilean Sea Bass, or Patagonian Toothfish, is a very tasty fish particularly popular in America. Gene looks into why it has suddenly become very expensive and could be getting more so.
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- Nick Humphrey
One day someone will write a book that explains consciousness. The book will put forward a theory that fills the gap between conscious experience and brain activity, but we aren't there yet.
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- Chris Smith
The placenta forms on the uterus wall during pregnancy and, via the umbilical cord, links the baby to its mother. Chris has been developing a mathematical model to understand how it acieves optimal delivery of oxygen and nutrients.
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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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- Dalya Rosner
Blasting away at someone's eyes with a powerful laser sounds like a form of torture dreampt up by a Bond villan, however it is becoming big buisiness in the form of laser eye surgery (LASIK - laser-assisted intrastromal in-situ keratomileusis).
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- Martin Westwell
I am organising a public event in Oxford entitled "The Science of Wine Tasting". I thought that people would be really keen but when I mentioned it to a colleague she said, "Well, that'll take all then fun out of it".
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- Bob Bury
Consultant radiologist, Dr. Bob Bury, discusses public perception of risk and how we assess risk in the context of exposing patients to X-rays and other forms of ionising radiation.
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- Karen Smith
The effects of a stroke depend upon which part of the brain are deprived of
blood. Researchers are studying the cause of some of the more peculiar effects such as hemi-neglect syndromes and how stroke victims can be rehabilitated.
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