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 New Ways to Monitor DiabetesWe explore how chemists at the University of Bristol are finding new molecules to monitor and treat diabetes...Charles Rennie, University of BristolFebruary 2012 |
 Fooling the Brain with Diet FoodsCould diet foods be making you fat? We investigate whether low calorie foods such as sweeteners and low fat alternatives can fool our brains into underestimating the energy content of the full fat versions...Susie Swithers, Purdue UniversityFebruary 2012 |
 Eating Behaviour and AppetiteThe eating habits we develop early in life can be very hard to change. Marion Hetherington discusses why this is and how it could be changed...Marion Hetherington, University of LeedsFebruary 2012 |
 Eavesdropping with Electrodes, Predicting an Eruption and muscle repair with a massage!How scientists are eavesdropping using electrodes, predicting eruptions using magma, healing wounds with honey and massaging away your aches and pains...Brian Pasley, University of California, Berkeley; Tim Druitt, Blaise Pascal University; Sarah Maddocks, University of Cardiff; Mark Tornopolsky, McMaster UniversityFebruary 2012 |
 Vitamin D and CancerAn international consortium last year confirmed that aspirin can protect people with a genetic predisposition to bowel cancer. Now, they are turning their attention to finding out what Vitamin D could do for cancer...Professor Sir John Burn, Newcastle UniversityJanuary 2012 |
 Vitamin D Deficiency and Multiple SclerosisHow is Vitamin D linked to autoimmunity and the central nervous system? With us to discuss the research is Prof. George Ebers from Oxford University, expert in Multiple Sclerosis....Professor George Ebers, Oxford UniversityJanuary 2012 |
 The Epidemiology of Vitamin DIntroducing Vitamin D: how deficient are we? And what disorders are linked with deficiency?Elina Hypponen, University College LondonJanuary 2012 |
 The balance between Vitamin D production and Skin Cancer preventionApart from food, a major source of vitamin D is exposure to sunlight which makes the hormone in the skin. So, some sun is good but therein lies the rub because sunlight can also cause skin cancer. Kat Arney discussing how to balance between the two...Kat Arney, Cancer Research UKJanuary 2012 |
 Suicidal Comets and Dancing BeetlesComets plummeting into the Sun's atmosphere, why exercise can keep diabetes at bay, how the public are helping seismology research and why Dung beetles like to dance...Carey Lisse, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Congcong He, University of Texas Southwestern medical centre; Richard Allen, UC Berkeley; Emilay Baird, University of LundJanuary 2012 |
 Wiring the Brain to Robotic LimbsScientists are moving closer to developing ways to interface with the brain and to decode what nerve cells are saying to each other, and can use this neural chatter to connect the brain to artificial limbs...Professor Andrew Schwartz, University of PittsburghJanuary 2012 |
 Spiderworms, Exploring Vents, Clues to deafness and Bulking up!Silkworms producing spider silk, new species discovered at hydrothermal vents in Antarctica, a gene providing new insight to deafness and the science behind bulking up this new year...Randy Lewis, Utah State University; Alex Rogers, University of Oxford; David Ornitz, University of Washington; Athanassia Soritopoulos, INSERMJanuary 2012 |
 Why do Brussels Sprouts make you fart?We explore just what goes on inside our bodies to cause the flatulence resulting from eating Brussels sprouts...Sarah Castor-PerryDecember 2011 |
 Bed Bugs, Night Shifts and Deterring the Affections of Fish...Bed Bugs travelling from abroad, why night shifts increase a female's chance of diabetes and how to deter the unwanted affection of a fish...Coby Schal, North Carolina State Universitys; An Pan, Harvard University; Safi Darden, Exeter UniversityDecember 2011 |
 Heading footballs and Gesturing RavensHow heading footballs could lead to brain injuries, a new target for drugs against Malaria and more evidence for the cleverness of corvids...Andrew Tobin, University of Leicester; Michael Lipton, Einstein school of Medicine; Thomas Bugnyar, Max Planck School of Ornithology.December 2011 |
 The Safety of StatinsA new study has confirmed the long term benefits of taking statins to treat heart disease...Richard Bulbulia, University of OxfordNovember 2011 |
 Lensless MicroscopesChanghuei Yang explains his design for a lensless microscope...Professor Changhuei Yang, University of California Institute of TechnologyNovember 2011 |
 The view through a confocal microscopeAbigail Woodfin discusses the uses of confocal microscopy in dynamic viewing of bodily functions...Dr. Abigail Woodfin, Queen Mary University of LondonNovember 2011 |
 Planet Earth - Anti-Venom MedicationsLooking at ways to reduce the cost of anti-venom...Robert Harrison, Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineNovember 2011 |
 Synaesthesia, Antibiotic Resistance and Snake VenomDao Nguyen, McGill University; Devin Terhune, University of Oxford; David Julius, UCSFNovember 2011 |
 Influenza virus and heart attacksLooking at whether flu can trigger heart attacks in vulnerable peopleDr. Charlotte Warren-Gash from University College LondonNovember 2011 |
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