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This is the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith and coming up, AstraZeneca acknowledges that its COVID vaccine is linked to a

rare blood clotting side effect. We'll find out which one and how that works.

Also, where the scientists are getting closer to cracking nuclear fusion and how adding bacteria

to plastic could hold the key to making the stuff break itself down.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education,

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First this week, the Pharmaceutical Beymoth AstraZeneca have acknowledged that their widely used COVID-19 vaccine, which is branded COVID-shield, can cause rare side effects including blood clots.

COVID-shield was developed by AstraZeneca in collaboration with the University of Oxford

and it's been widely administered across the world.

But what's known about the vaccine and its side effects in the aftermath?

Well I went to meet Claire Bryant, who's an immunologist at the University of Cambridge.

The astrosendica vaccine took a chimpanzee adenovirus, so that's the kind of virus that causes colds,

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