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Could DNA be the information storage solution we desperately need?
... involve using this already-proven method for our own digital storage needs. So how can this ancient molecule ... already present 100 trillion times over within our own bodies, as well as the proteins required to synthesise ... to stop us adapting and using this technology for our own purposes? In the last 25 years, man-made technologies ...
Treating Age-Related Macular Degeneration
... central vision so they can't even recognise faces, they're own family to the point where very blurred peripheral vision ... moment in late stage disease when we've used the patient's own cells we're getting about 25% success rate. We hope to ... greater success. Meera - You say you've used the patient's own cells, form their own eyes? Pete - From their own eyes. ...
DNA Insights into Neanderthal Society
... in Siberia. Neanderthals are a sister species to our own species. Homo sapiens, they were living in Europe and ... interesting because I suppose we compare that then to our own species, homo sapiens. One of the things we're very ... those differences might tell us something about our own species evolution, why our own societies were so ...
Combined melanoma treatments improves survival
... have begun to develop a therapy that uses the patient's own immune system to attack the cancer. Chris Smith heard ... particularly well suited to treat cancer. Chris - On their own though, the viruses only trigger a successful response in ... the therapy itself triggers the cancer to increase its own production of other immune bypassing signals, including ...
Is there gender bias in peer review?
... we’ve got both people being biased in favour of their own sex. Markus - That's true. Chris - By how much? Markus - ... a difference in the way female editors prefer their own gender than the way male editors prefer their own gender. It seems that the same gender preference is much ...
MRI Scanning the Stars
... of information. They were starting to try to build their own software and then we realised that a lot of other people ... Alyssa - One of the things that we're interested in, in my own work which has to do with star formation, is what the ... - Can researchers begin to speculate that, in fact, our own solar system (in other words, the sun and our clutch of ...
How to find your own meteorite
... tips from astronomer Carolin Crawford on how to find your own hunk of space metal after Graihagh Jackson found a rather ... in their insulation in the roof. So they had their own little meteorite that had hit their roof - I think that's ... Crawford, University of Cambridge Top tips to find your own hunk of space metal... How to find your own meteorite ...
How far is the nearest galaxy?
... years away, and we think it looks very similar to our own galaxy. It's difficult to know what our own galaxy looks like because we're in it, but calculations ... realised that these smudges were too far away to be in our own galaxy. Even Einstein fell foul of misconceptions of that ...
Do antibiotics kill good bacteria?
... possibly for a week or so afterwards. Just to give your own bacteria a chance to recover because although a certain number of your own bacteria will get killed, and that can cause the upset ... have in your intestines is more unique to you than your own fingerprint is. So if antibiotics wipe out some of those ...
The future for artificial livers
... have built an artificial liver that supports a patient's own failing liver and helps it to repair itself... So how you ... tissue damage and showed improved regeneration of their own livers after a drug-induced injury, resembling a drug overdose in humans, to their own livers. Although it's early days, the ultimate aim is, ...
Remembering the mission to the moon
We asked for people to tell us their own feelings about the Moon landing, and their own memories. This is what we heard... I remember thinking it ... up and down between TV in the living room and radio on my own room to follow both events. When I was on tour in Ireland ...
Can you get sick from your own intestinal bacteria?
Hannah - So, can your own bowel bugs make you sick or can only make other people ... sick as well? In other words, can you get sick from your own intestinal bacteria? Claes If the bacteria that cause a bout of food poisoning came from your own intestines, will you be protected against illness? Can ...
Cup-Club: Reducing our waste
... level. One person who decided to take matters into their own hands joins us now, it’s Safia Qureshi founder and CEO ... to give users for doing the right thing. Kat - This is my own personal reusable cup; it’s a lovely shade of grey and ... in Edinburgh. So I take this around with me and make my own coffee. But the idea is that you get your cup, clean, new ...
Lunar laws: can anyone own the Moon?
... out there and then hammering a flag in and saying, 'I own that bit.' Michelle - Absolutely nothing. There's no ... though? You could go to the Moon and not say you own it, but you could still remove stuff. Say, for example, ... were placed there, the person doesn't have to own the patch of the Moon to have that there, and they could ...
What is the brain-gut connection?
... nervous system, it continues to function largely on its own. Not completely, but mostly on its own. It seems like a good, backup system to have that can function mostly on its own and keep you alive despite severing that connection. ...
Second patient goes HIV-free
... all the cells in the blood, from a donor whose own cells carry a mutation rendering them resistant to HIV. ... drugs to destroy both the lymphoma and also the patient's own bone marrow cells. Next, they administered into a vein ... described so far had to undergo destruction of their own bone marrow as part of cancer treatment. Following ...
How honeyguide birds assist human honey hunters
... getting access. So, to solve this, they team up with their own species and approach humans in the bush and give a ... - It's entirely possible that it actually predates our own species. And that's because the two key features that ... species until it fledges. It'll never knowingly meet its own parents because they're raised by species that have had ...
Is conservation pointless?
... the preservation of animals or plants or things for their own sake. I'm partly for the preservation of the natural ... man. Not only would it be good to have forests for their own sake, but they are vital to our survival. Ben - Now, I've ... a lot of research now suggesting that biodiversity for its own sake appears to actually matter. Forests with more ...
Food and mood
... bees, and other more primitive organisms that have their own gut microbiome. Kat - We sort of hear a lot about the ... that they have developed capabilities of hacking into our own communication systems that are very elaborate that link ... those human programmes and modify them according to their own needs. Kat - So, our gut bacteria could basically be ...
Chuckling cuckoos have the last laugh
... in the nests of other species, so they don’t rear their own offspring, they foist this parental care onto other ... their defences are misdirected to concerns about their own safety. Stevie - I’m guessing then you went on a ... that they are paying attention to themselves and their own safety rather than inspecting the contents of their nest, ...
Was dark matter created with the Big Bang?
... be put together then there can exist things beyond our own universe and dark energy can be some kind of phenomenon that is related to stuff beyond our own universe. And so, once you have that, you could start to ... dark energy, maybe it is something that is outside our own universe that in some sense, you can say, exists ...
Repairing Brains to treat Parkinson's Disease
... in is this so called idea of using the patient’s own cells to repair their own brain. Now that is a very attractive idea but there are a ... so now I’m going to make some dopamine cells from your own cells, your own genetic background, which gave you ...
Hopper-bot reaches parts that other robots can’t reach!
... 7 grams, and can jump 1.4 meters in the air, 27 times it's own height - that's ten times further for it's size and ... like fleas and locusts are able to jump many times their own height by slowly building up energy in elastic muscles, ...
Greek Brothels Started at Home
... instead the Greeks would host the fun in their own front room. Clare - Well, my research focuses on the ... to traders without the right or the financial resources to own a house of their own. So, the use of houses is incredibly diverse in a ...
The Dark Universe
... matter exists... Catherine - So, let's think about our own Milky Way galaxy. So, we've got stars that are spinning around in our own Milky Way galaxy and you can look how fast they're moving ... If there wasn't a big halo of dark matter around our own Milky Way galaxy, all the stars would just simply fly out ...