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It's the show where we bring you science.

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Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.

Hello, welcome to the naked scientist.

This is the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine. I'm Chris Smith.

And I'm Julia Ravi. This week the medical breakthrough of a potential malaria

vaccine we find out how unmonitored sewage is polluting or beaches, but may also

help with a sulfur shortage, and we ask if similar looking strangers may share a similar

genetic makeup.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First up this week, this week malaria affects millions of people every year in the

tropics and the majority of the deaths from the disease

are in young children. It's one of those diseases that's been crying out for a vaccine for decades

but it has proved a very difficult nut to crack. The malaria parasite has a very complex life cycle and thousands of genes make it hard to

disentangle how it actually works and how best to treat it. But this month

UNICEF have awarded a contract that's worth nearly 200 million dollars to drug giant G.S.K.

To make millions of doses of a promising new vaccine candidate that's called RTS, which will be supplied for children who are at risk in the key malaria

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