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🗓️ 6 October 2014
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, yacult.co.com.j. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Steve Merski. |
0:38.7 | The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, |
0:49.2 | with one half to John O'Keefe and the other half jointly to Maidrit Moser and Edvard Moser |
0:59.0 | for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. |
1:06.0 | Gorin Hansen of the Nobel Committee. |
1:08.0 | O'Keefe is at University College London. He discovered the so-called |
1:11.8 | place cells in the hippocampus in 1971. The married Mosers are at the Norwegian |
1:17.3 | University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. In 2005, they found the other component of the |
1:23.9 | brain's inner GPS system, the grid cells. Julien Zirath, chair of the Nobel Committee, |
1:29.3 | explains in terms of visiting Sweden and looking for a landmark, |
1:34.3 | a recovered 17th century Swedish warship called the Vasa ship. |
1:38.3 | You're going to go visit an exciting city like Stockholm, okay? |
1:42.3 | And you've never been there before. And so the first thing |
1:46.4 | you do is you take a map from the hotel and you're going to help your family find the Vasa |
1:51.8 | ship. So you have landmarks on the map. It could be the city hall, it could be the concert house, |
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