Blood Under a Microscope

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, we're taking a look at blood, from regenerating blood vessels, to one of our team going to their first blood donation! Plus in the news, concerns that Ebola might be back with a vengeance in future: 60% more often and with 4 times the impact; plus NASA's first all-female spacewalk: we hear from one of the astronauts involved... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space big time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.1	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist.
0:18.0	This is the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science and technology
0:22.4	with me, Chris Smith and Adam Murphy.
0:25.0	This week we are taking a look at blood from regenerating blood vessels to my very first blood
0:30.1	donation.
0:31.3	And news that Ebola might be back with a vengeance in future, 60% more often
0:35.8	and with four times the impact, plus NASA's first all-female space walk. We hear from one of the
0:41.9	astronauts involved.
0:43.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Now first this week Ebola outbreaks could become 60% more frequent
0:59.6	an effect four times as many people as they have in recent years
1:02.8	owing to the effects of climate change and overpopulation.
1:06.2	That is the somber message which is emerging from a new disease outbreak
1:09.3	simulation from UCL's David Redding.
1:12.0	Ebola is a very interesting disease.
1:14.0	It's what we call a zootic or animal a born disease.
1:18.0	So we catch this disease from contacting animals
1:21.0	and then it spreads through human populations.
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