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Are snakes susceptible to their own venoms?
... to consider. That is, they aren't susceptible to their own venom in their own fangs, because they don't kill themselves every time they ... This is also why if a snake happens to swallow some of its own venom it will be okay, because the venom is made of ...
Why antibiotics for bacteria but not viruses?
... a problem, because bacteria look totally different to our own cells, so it's fairly easy to make drugs and chemicals ... roger a bacterial metabolism and which will not affect our own metabolism. Because viruses have to prey on our own metabolism, and they have to use our own cells to make ...
Pandemic vs Endemic: What's the difference?
... can't exist really without living things to use for their own destruction. Julia - Sean has also written in to ask ... living things are able to grow and reproduce on their own and that is where I draw the line. Julia - In the UK, ... to an 'endemic'. What does that mean? Raven - In my own words, an 'endemic' means that it is going to move from ...
Gene therapy for Huntington's Disease?
... are based on RNA interference which uses the body's own small RNA silencing system. Every cell in our bodies has ... that are based on entering search queries into the cell's own searching machinery and then directing it to a desired ... I told you about. So, we sort of hijack the cell's own machinery to try to turn off this disease gene. Now, that ...
How long could one survive eating yourself?
... To work out how long someone could survive by eating their own limbs, we need to make a number of assumptions. Firstly, ... live if somehow he had to live on amputations of his own body. I assume that piecemeal would too much of a shock . ... equipment, how long could you survive just eating your own severed limbs? How long could one survive eating yourself? ...
Do we have free will or is life determined?
... as under external environmental stimuli. Hannah - My own view and this is just a personal view is that, our brains ... everything almost is pre-determined. That's just my own personal view. I don't know whether you've got anything ... about actually what they do and want to do with their own free will. Katie - I mean, I think you only need to look ...
Why do we get relief from crying?
... There wasn't much I could find on this. There was our very own study that talked about the excretion of cortisol through ... is sort of hypothesis. So, I've come up with one of my own and that's from an unlikely source as to why we might ... he talked about endorphins which are our sort of body's own pain killers and he talked about how the act of laughing ...
Why does my voice sound different in my head?
... they called the speech jammer which actually played your own voice back at you at just a few milliseconds delay, I believe, and it's so disrupting to hear your own voice back with that slight delay that it basically shuts ... they think "do I really sound like that?" Do we hear are own voices differently that how we sound to others? I hope ...
Does the DNA of food survive digestion?
... had leached out into their intestines and those people's own intestinal bacteria had picked up the DNA and incorporated the genes into their own genomes. This is as one person put it, rather like you ...
Do our voices sound different in our heads?
... In radio, I am constantly disappointed by the sound of my own voice so, I was keen to bring in the experts for this ... a bit more 'god like'. It's like having a producer on our own voices.Nick - Yes, I imagine that's exactly right. It's ...
Is it evolutionarily advantageous to be a cannibal?
... evolutionarily, is that if you're eating something of your own species, it can get all the same diseases that you can. ... it and lots of protein which will help you to build your own muscles up. But you could, if you're going to live a long ...
How do you test for AIDS?
... DNA copy or inserts the DNA copy of the virus inside your own DNA. Then it just turns off and so you have cells ... there and you can detect virus that's lurking inside your own genome. I recently listened to one of your podcasts on ...
Would self bone marrow transplants reverse aging?
... somehow less damaged. And the idea that you could use your own banked cells from earlier in your life is an interesting ... at an early age and then received transfusions of your own blood when you were older? I assume there are many things ...
Can proteins eaten by a mother get into her breast milk?
... - Well, the answer is... I was intrigued by this (and my own observations at home) enough to want to look this up ... is so contaminated and it's getting through our own systems. Isn't there also a story about if you have a ...
How best to treat depression?
... to know at what point can I not manage this anymore on my own. At what point should I go and get some sort of chemical ... you do because some things we can't just deal with on our own. Hannah - Martin, Katie, there has been kind of this big ...
Is it possible to test your own DNA?
... information but the minute you know something about your own genetic makeup, you know something about your relative. ... an elaborate medical lab. Is it possible to test your own DNA? ...
Can genetically modified viruses be used to treat HIV?
... So, when they infected people with this virus, if their own cells then got infected with normal HIV, it made and ...
Could genetically engineered humans drink seawater?
... we dehydrate very quickly if we drink it on its own, because our kidneys have to get rid of more water than ...
Why are fingerprints unique?
... Niamh Nic Daeid, put me through my paces at our very own virtual crime scene where, would you believe it, the ...
What causes the bright patterns when you rub your closed eyes?
... it's a visual hallucination originating from inside your own eyeball. When you apply pressure to the eyeball, what ...
How do cancer cells survive?
... for the cell itself, so they end up dying of their own mutations. Very, very rarely, you get this perfect storm ...
Can a baby be born with leukaemia?
... any baby is born - and you would've seen this with your own kids - you have a heel prick test and this is taken away ...
Why does cancer have multiple causes?
... gene damage is reactive oxygen molecules produced by our own cells as they make energy. We can also inherit gene ...
How do bats know it is night time?
... and inform all of the tissues in the body that have their own body clocks, what time it is. So you have this master ...
Will my cat allergy get worse with time?
... providing they have constant but low exposure to their own cat. I'm allergic to my cat. I take antihistamines. Is it ...