Flu Vaccines from Tobacco?
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In a show not to be sneezed at, we look at the evidence that coughs and sneezes are linked to heart attacks. We also probe the Flu Survey, a new citizen science initiative to gather data on the incidence of influenza-like illnesses in the European population; we talk to the company who are mass producing flu vaccines in tobacco plants and catch up with the Columbia University scientific adviser on Contagion, Hollywood's latest infectious offering. Plus, why babies don't tie their umbilical cords in knots and news of a new fat-busting injectible that selectively destroys adipose, evidence that only single strains of HIV are transmitted between partners and the discovery of two pristine primordial gas clouds produced by the Big Bang...
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Looking at whether flu can trigger heart attacks in vulnerable people
As we enter “flu season” in the northern hemisphere, to help track the spread of seasonal flu here in the UK and throughout Europe, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have launched an initiative called “flu survey”. We spoke to Professor John Edmun...
A new biotechnology company called Medicago have developed a technique for quickly and cheaply producing vaccines using tobacco plants. Genes from the flu virus are added to the plants using a bacterial Trojan horse and Professor Brian Ward from McGill University is the medical...
A fat-reducing drug that can reverse obesity in monkeys has been successfully tested by US scientists...
Researchers have found that the strain of HIV virus most common in the genital tract of a chronically infected person is not necessarily the strain that infects a new sexual partner.
Two gas clouds containing pristine samples of the gas spawned by the Big Bang has been spotted by astronomers.
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Richard Hollingham visits St. Brelade in Jersey to talk to a team of archaeologists who’re reappraising the caves to learn more about the Islands Neanderthal history...
Ian Lipkin discusses the science behind the film Contagion which depicts the series of events that unfold with the outbreak of a new strain of flu...
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Hi,
I'm a graduate student in the US, and really enjoy your podcast. As I'm 7 months pregnant, I have a question about the umbilical cord. How is it that it doesn't become tangled? Any other long cord (dog leash, ipod headphones, etc.) quickly loops into knots and kinks tha...
A group of researchers from Columbia University publishing in the journal Environmental Research Letters have found that the growth of white spruce trees on the northern treeline in the far north of Alaska has shot up over the past 50 years. They’ve also managed to put forward a...
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