- Karen Smith
Historically, drugs have been produced according to a one-size-fits all approach. But now we are in a position to start building drugs tailor-made to an in
dividual' DNA. Dr. Karen Smith looks at the implications of made-to-measure drugs and therapies.
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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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- Kat Arney
Imagine if you could turn your muscles into blood cells, or turning your bone marrow into muscle. How about changing your blood to brain cells, then back again, or making a spare liver from your bone marrow?
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- Jemima Stockton
What are probiotics or 'friendly' bacteria, how do prebiotics and probiotics like Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium and Streptococcus, help prevent illnesses
including meningitis, pneumonia, cancers, and inflammatory bowel diseases including Crohn's Disease ?
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- Kat Arney
The brain is probably the most fascinating yet impenetrable organ studied by scientists. One question that remains to be answered is why we have two halves to our brains, and are they the same?
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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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- Bob Bury
Ultrasound Scans (USS), and now Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), allows us to visualise body tissues in high resolution, without the risks associated with the use of ionising radiation such as X-Rays. Bob Bury explains how ultrasound scans and MRI scanning works.
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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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- 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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- 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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