Science NewsFLASH

The Naked Scientists: Science Radio & Science Podcasts

News Story from our Archive
Brain scans to recognise facial recognition
16 May 2010
Subscribe Free via itunes,yahoo or google < Previous Show | Next Show >
6th Feb 2012

Untangling the Spread of Alzheimer's


Sarah Castor-Perry

Ben Valsler
Alzheimers Neurofibrillary tangle

In this NewsFlash - we find out how regions of the brain may “catch” Alzheimer’s from each other, discover a new microscopy technique that can open a window on the brain in action and talk to the Australian ecologist who thinks more introduced species, including elephants, could stabilise the Aussie ecosystem.

Transcript
Rate our podcast
Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts

News

(c) National Institute of Ageing

Untangling how Alzheimer's spreads through the brain

Scientists at Columbia University in New York have figured out how one of the key proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease spreads through the brain.

Super Microscope Watches Living Brain Cells

A clever “super-resolution” microscope has allowed researchers to observe changes in a single neuron in the brain of a live mouse. The exceptional level of detail even showed protrusions called dendritic spines moving and changing shape...

(c) Stacy - http://flickr.com/people/21001756@N06

On a Diet? Dine with Slow Eaters…

Our eating behaviour changes to match that of the company we keep due to a subconscious mimicry response that causes us to match our dining partners bite for bite...


Interviews

(c) Follix @ wikimedia

Elephants in the Outback

Introducing new species has proved disasterous for the Australian ecosystem. So it's no wonder that ecologist David Bowman has met controversy with his suggestion that, to stablise the system, we may need to introduce even more...

(c) thomas wanhoff@en.wikipedia

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...




Naked Scientists Science Radio Show Home Who are The Naked Scientists Information about Naked Scientists
Naked Scientists Podcast Ask the Naked Scientists Podcast Question of the Week Podcast
Naked Science Articles Experiments to do at Home Science Discussion Forum
Science News Stories Answers to Science Questions Interviews with Famous Scientists

Information presented on this website is the opinion of the individual contributors and does not reflect the general views of the administrators, editors, moderators, sponsors, Cambridge University or the public at large.

Click here for the Naked Scientists PODCAST

The contents of this site are © The Naked Scientists® 2000-2012. The Naked Scientists® and Naked Science® are registered trademarks.