Born to Run: Sprinting Science

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

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week we get off the couch to talk about the science of running. What does it do for our bodies, and our minds? Why did we ever evolve to do it in the first place? Can a man outrun a horse? Plus in the news, a potential kill-switch for tuberculosis, landing on an asteroid, and we tackle the myth of alcohol warming you up... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.6	Hello.
0:04.6	Hello.
0:05.6	Welcome.
0:06.6	And that is the science.
0:09.8	And that is to say physics medicine, or space time brain life the universe
0:17.2	this week grab your trainers in recognition of the Cambridge half marathon
0:20.4	we're looking at the science of running and ahead of that in the news a new way
0:24.8	to attack tuberculosis the UK announces major funding for artificial intelligence
0:29.4	and why it's a myth that a stiff drink warms you up on a winter's day.
0:33.7	Hello I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Sciences.
0:37.6	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. K.
0:44.0	A suicide switch that triggers the bacteria that cause TB tuberculosis to kill themselves
0:56.7	has been uncovered by scientists in France. The discovery could enable scientists to develop
1:02.0	a new class of antibiotic drugs that can trip this switch and cause the bacteria to die.
1:07.0	This would also be a very big help in combating the problem of antibiotic resistance.
1:12.0	Respiratory specialist Andreas Foto from the University of Cambridge,
1:15.2	who wasn't involved in the study himself, took me through the findings.
1:19.1	This group's been interested in understanding how to kill
1:21.6	lycobacterium tuberculosis tuberculosis which is what causes TB.
1:25.3	And what they focused on is a toxin, anti-toxin system.
1:29.1	This is a strategy that's used by lots of bacteria, where they produce a poison and at the same time produce an antidote.
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