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 Targeted Gene Therapy for HaemophiliaKathy High explains how changing the expression of genes can help treat diseases such as Haemophilia...Kathy High, Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaOctober 2011 |
 Living With HaemophiliaHaemophilia is a disorder of blood clotting factors, leading to excessive bleeding in patients. To find out what it's like to live with the condition, Meera Senthilingam met Adam Jones...Adam Jones, University of SunderlandOctober 2011 |
 Gene Therapy for Inherited BlindnessRob MacLaren explores how we can manipulate genes to restore vision in patients with inherited blindness...Robert MacLaren, University of OxfordOctober 2011 |
 A Virus to Combat CancerIain McNeish discusses how adenoviruses could be used to find and kill cancerous cells within the body...Iain McNeish, University College LondonOctober 2011 |
 Foetal Gene TherapySimon Waddington explains how you could use gene therapy to treat certain disorders as early as in the womb...Simon Waddington, University College LondonOctober 2011 |
 Spaceports, IVF and Malaria VaccinesThe opening of the World's first spaceport, improving IVF success with genetic screening, New hope for a Malaria Vaccine and how Giant Pandas survive on Bamboo...Richard Branson, Virgin; Dagan Wells, University of Oxford; Tsiri Abunyega, Malaria Vaccine Initiative; Fuwen Wei, Chinese Academy of SciencesOctober 2011 |
 Insect Recruitment to keep Pests at BayJohn Pickett discusses how plants can recruit insects to keep other pests at bay...Professor John Pickett, Rothamsted ResearchOctober 2011 |
 DNA Scalpel Fixes Mutations; Leaves No ScarsA new technique to repair errors in DNA while leaving no trace has been reported in the journal Nature. The researchers have corrected an error that leads to an untreatable liver disease, and this technique could eventually lead to treatments for an extremely wide range of genetic illnesses...Professor David Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical ResearchOctober 2011 |
 Fighting Infections and Mimicking MusclesWe find out why Vitamin D can keep Tuberculosis at bay, how muscles can be mimicked with nanotubes, how prosthetic can be controlled using brain signals and another reason to eat your greens...Robert Modlin, UCLA; Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh; Ray Baughman, University of Dallas at Texas; Marc Vendhoen, Babraham InstituteOctober 2011 |
 Critter of the Month - HolothuriansKevin Hardy tells us which marine creature he'd like to be and why...Kevin Hardy, SCRIPPS Institution of OceanographyOctober 2011 |
 Weird and Wonderful early life - the Ediacaran and Burgess Shale fossilsComplex life forms first evolved in the oceans around 630 million years ago, but they didn't look much like to anything we see today. Ken McNamara of the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge, explores the evolutionary experiments of the Ediacaran and Cambrian eras...Dr Ken McNamara, Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, CambridgeOctober 2011 |
 The ALMA Telescope, Solar Orbiter, Autistic Mice and Chivalrous Crickets.The opening a the largest ground telescope ever built, A probe planning a journey to the Sun and the revival of chivalry...in crickets.Antonio Hales, ALMA; Matt Anderson, Harvard Medical School; Fabio Favata, European Space Agency; Migeul Nicolelis, Duke University; Rolando Rodriguez-Munoz, Exeter UniversityOctober 2011 |
 Exploring the oceans' greatest catastropheWhy did 90% of ocean life vanish 250 million years ago? We find out as we dive into Permian seas to investigate an ocean in crisis.Paul Wignall, Leeds UniversityOctober 2011 |
 Exploring Lake EllsworthChris Hill and Martin Siegert tell Richard Holligham about the technology which will be used to drill through over 3km of ice and look for life in a hidden Antarctic lake in this week's Planet Earth podcast.Chris Hill and Martin Siegert, University of EdinburghOctober 2011 |
 Space Stations, The Dead Sea Scrolls and Glowing Bacteria...In this week's news roundup we discuss Chinese Space Stations, the Dead Sea Scrolls going online, using CO2 to generate fuel and encrypting messages with glowing bacteria...Anu Ohja, National Space Centre; Geza Vermes, University of Oxford; Rich Masel, Dioxide Materials; Michel Lucas, Harvard School of Public Health; David Walts, Tufts University;September 2011 |
 Movies of the MindSuccessfully decoding and reconstructing of the visual images experienced by volunteers viewing a sequence of Hollywood movies may lead to communication with brain injured patients and even being able to watch your own dreams like a video...Jack Gallant, University of California, BerkeleySeptember 2011 |
 Stonehenge Landscape Restoration Project - Planet EarthWhen Turner and Constable first painted Stonehenge about two hundred years ago, the very famous monument was surrounded by species rich chalk grasslands. The Stonehenge Landscape Restoration project aims is to restore the landscape surrounding the monument by recreating the chalk grasslands and reintroducing biodiversity to the area...Chris Gingell, Grace Triston-DaviesSeptember 2011 |
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 Best Before DatesWhat are the risks of food? Are 'best before' dates actually useful?Dr Nick Brown, Addenbrookes HospitalSeptember 2011 |
 The Microbiology of CheeseProfessor Martin Adams talks through how cheddar and stilton cheeses are made.Martin Adams, University of SurreySeptember 2011 |
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