DNA-away Disease: Gene Therapy at Work

DNA-away Disease: Gene Therapy at Work

Two pioneers in the field of gene therapy join us to discuss how they're developing modified viruses to deliver healthy copies of genes to save patients afflicted by lethal genetic diseases. We also hear how energy can be harvested from footsteps and heartbeats to power nanodevices, and how a new SWARM of satellites is about to be deployed to study the Earth's magnetic field from space. Plus, in the news, how "ums" and "ahs" can boost a baby's learning power, how mankind talked his way out of Africa and how scientists are recreating schizophrenia in a Petri dish... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Q&A: Knuth, curry and kettles

Q&A: Knuth, curry and kettles

Another month, another brilliant panel, another romp through your mind bending questions. Physicists Tony Padilla and Toby Wiseman, archaeologist Emma Pomeroy and educator Andrew Morris help Chris Smi...

8 Elo 202357min

Hydrogen: fuel or folly?

Hydrogen: fuel or folly?

This week, we're turning to the subject of hydrogen and its potential to play a role as a cleaner fuel in future. Could hydrogen be the answer to our energy conundrum? Like this podcast? Please help u...

1 Elo 202329min

Global boiling, and crashed crafts on Mars

Global boiling, and crashed crafts on Mars

Sweltering temperatures wreak havoc across Europe and North America, so what needs to be done to bring them down? We hear from the Cambridge scientist who wants to create the largest ever DNA and heal...

28 Heinä 202327min

How AI will actually change the world

How AI will actually change the world

It's been quite the ride in the realm of artifical intelligence over the past year or so. As impressive as advancements in machine learning have been, however, few experts are worried about bots takin...

25 Heinä 202330min

Alzheimer's drug, and algae vegan vitamins

Alzheimer's drug, and algae vegan vitamins

A new drug in the fight against Alzheimer's disease: how does it work? Plus, we'll also have the latest on measles cases in London, look at the calls to reset the lunar clock, and could algae help peo...

21 Heinä 202327min

Antidepressants: the ongoing debate

Antidepressants: the ongoing debate

We'll be exploring depression, what causes it, and whether antidepressants or other treatments hold the key to solving it. Amongst our guests is psychologist Gordon Harold, speaking on how depression ...

18 Heinä 202329min

Feeling the heat and hearing the silence

Feeling the heat and hearing the silence

The mercury rises as record temperatures are recorded across the world. But what's driving them? Also ahead: the sound of silence. We'll be finding out why scientists think it's not just the absence o...

14 Heinä 202327min

Q&A: Love drugs and phaging superbugs

Q&A: Love drugs and phaging superbugs

It's a Question and Answer special this week. You supply the questions and we pose them to a panel of expert guests. Joining us this time, biologist and author Tom Ireland, marine scientist Liberty De...

11 Heinä 20231h

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