Building Bodies and Mending Broken Hearts
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This week we find out about bionic bodies. We discover whether it's possible to mend a broken heart with stem cells as well as investigate if soft nanobots could soon be delivering drugs around our bodies. We also bring you the highlights from this years British Science Festival. Plus, in Kitchen Science, we hit the kitchen to investigate one of natures composite materials - a chicken bone!
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Also in the news this week - an international consortium of Aphid researchers have been studying the newly decoded aphid genome, due to be published later this year, with a view to developing better pesticides that will not let the aphids develop resistance...
Is it possible to fix a broken heart with stem cells? Sian Harding looks into this...
Diana O'Carroll brings us the highlights from this years British Science Festival...
Tony Ryan discusses how can minuscule robots deliver deliver drugs to precise location in our body...
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