Synthetic Biology

Synthetic Biology

We explore synthetic biology in this Naked Scientists Show, finding out how to learn from, and improve on, the structures and systems we find in nature. We'll meet the team of students who designed a biological sensor to win the international genetically engineered machine competition, or iGEM, and find out how to build bespoke proteins. In Kitchen Science, we feed an egg to some enzymes to find out how biological washing powder works. Plus, what the brain does when it sees a familiar face, genetically modified crops boost resistant bug numbers, how to create hair cells, essential for hearing,... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Can we talk to dolphins?

Can we talk to dolphins?

The Naked Scientists are joined by marine biologist Danielle Green, physicist Stuart Higgins, psychologist Duncan Astle and astrophysicist Carolin Crawford, to tackle your questions. This week, find o...

12 Jun 201753min

Cyber Security: When Crime Goes Online

Cyber Security: When Crime Goes Online

As life moves increasingly online, so do crime and fraud. This week, we uncover some personal secrets from a supposedly blank hard drive, find out how hackers can use baby monitors to spy on people an...

5 Jun 201754min

Biology's Biggest Mystery: The Origin of Life

Biology's Biggest Mystery: The Origin of Life

Journey back 3.7 billion years to the young earth, as we try to find out how life first began. Was it in a soup of colliding chemistry, a deep-sea hydrothermal vent or did life rain down on the eart...

29 Mai 201755min

Why Bother Going to the Moon?

Why Bother Going to the Moon?

The Naked Scientists are joined by biologist Kate Feller, physicist Jess Wade, biochemist Andy Holding and Space Boffin Richard Hollingham, to field your science questions. This week, find out what ha...

22 Mai 201753min

Would Aliens Understand Maths?

Would Aliens Understand Maths?

Love it or loathe it maths is everywhere... from counting bees to interstellar trade with aliens, we explore how maths earned the title of the language of the universe. Plus, getting to know our new a...

15 Mai 201755min

How language affects the brain

How language affects the brain

This week, The Naked Scientists go global as we explore language - can speaking more than one exercise our brain?; and is our ability to save money purely down to the way we talk? Plus, the rodents th...

8 Mai 201755min

Zooming in on Cancer

Zooming in on Cancer

Cancer is a devastating disease, and one of the largest killers in the Western world. This week, in a special show, Kat Arney investigates how scientists are fighting back, from building tumours in th...

1 Mai 201755min

Gut Bugs: Friend or Foe?

Gut Bugs: Friend or Foe?

The Naked Scientists go on a tour of the intestine, from top to bottom, in search of the good and bad germs that lurk there and what they mean for our health. Plus, why touchscreens may be harming tod...

24 Apr 201755min

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