- Sarah Urquhart
A period, or menstruation, marks the beginning of the process by which the uterus, or womb, prepares itself for pregnancy. Sarah has a look at the process and what can go wrong including missed or late periods, intermenstrual bleeding, heavy periods, painful periods, pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), and the menopause.
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- Barrie Lancaster
They are found in well-organised groups; they communicate constantly through long ranging connections; there are 100,000,000,000 of them, surrounded by at least 10 times that many supporters, and they are all inside your head – they're brain cells, but how do they work?
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- Karen Smith
In 1953 Cambridge scientists Watson & Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. 50 years later other Cambridge scientists such as John Sulston were key in decoding the human-genome - another fundamental breakthrough had occurred that might allow us to one day to personalise medicine.
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- Claire McLoughlin
Claire McLoughlin describes the chemistry of cooking including what chemical changes occur in food when we cook it, and how does taste and flavour work ?
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- Kat Arney
Research has revealed that part of the brain responsible for smelling grows during pregnancy, at least in rats. This discovery has exciting implications for our understanding of brain function and learning in adults.
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- Dan Gollub
Dan looks at dream interpretation again and may reveal that meaningful dream interpretation can reliably be accomplished despite the endless diversity of dream content.
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- Barry Gibb
Nanomedicine, nanotechnology and nanoengineering are the future of science and medicine. Barry Gibb describes how the ability to shrink technology to the level of an individual cell and carry out repairs at the molecular level are not just science fiction.
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- Robinson Fulweiler
Climate change has been blamed with altering the environment – from animal migrations to sea level. Now it's also affecting nutrient cycling. Excess nitrogen discharged into estuaries used to be removed by a bacterial process in the sediments. But recent research shows a dramatic change...
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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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- Barry Gibb
Scientists studying the Conus snail have found that it harbours a cocktail of over 50 nerve toxins in its venom, some of which have powerful painkilling (a
nalgesic) properties, and are now undergoing clinical trials.
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