- 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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- David Gamon
If you want a sure-fire conversation starter to pull out of your pocket during an awkward social moment, try this: Why do people often look sideways when they're answering a question? And why do they sometimes look right, and other times look left?
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- Bob Bury
Radiologist Bob Bury investigates some of the new 'scanning' technologies, which have revolutionised medical practise. What is a CT scan, how do CT scanners work, what is nuclear medicine and PET (positron emission tomography) ?
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- 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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- Bob Bury
Nothing that you do is safe. Everything carries an inherent risk, but what is justifiable risk, and how do you assess risk in healthcare privision ? Bob Bury discusses risk and how it relates to MMR (measles mumps rubella) vaccination.
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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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- Charlotte Rusby
What do pop-up books and some of the most fundamental molecules of life have in common? Charlotte Rusby enters a world 100 million times smaller than the bookshelf to find out...
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- Davina Stevenson
Photo-therapy is the term used to describe treatments which use light to achieve their effects. But how do these work chemically? Davina finds out.
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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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- 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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