meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Naked Scientists Podcast

Catching Up with Cancer

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2008

⏱️ 59 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We catch up with the latest on cancer this week including an update from the National Cancer Research Institute conference in Birmingham. We hear how computers are helping doctors to read mammograms, how researchers are re-programming the immune system to attack tumours, and we get the low down on the new vaccine against cervical cancer. We also discover how blood cells can be used as a Trojan horse to sneak-in chemicals to boost the power of body scans, what a fossil form of HIV can tell us about the origin of AIDS, and how beetles create their own antibiotics. Plus, in kitchen science, Ben... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

On Britain streets, you unknowingly see, extraordinary heroes who look just like me.

0:07.0

We live without capes or superpowers.

0:10.0

We're the everyday heroes who save the hour a nurse a teacher a cabby a mate pride of

0:17.3

Britain's here it's time to celebrate do you know an everyday hero who deserves

0:22.4

recognition visit pride of Britain dot com Do you know an everyday hero who deserves recognition?

0:23.0

Visit pride of Britain.com and nominate them today.

0:26.0

T.S.B. proud partners of the Pride of Britain Awards.

0:30.0

Boldly going where no science show has gone before. The Naked Scientists.

0:37.0

The Naked Scientists.

0:42.0

Hello, welcome to the naked scientists with me, Chris Smith, and with Helen Scales.

0:46.2

Hi Helen.

0:47.2

Now coming up in this week's program we'll be hearing how scientists can use your own

0:50.5

cells now as Trojan horses to sneak chemicals into the bloodstream

0:54.2

and that's to improve the results of body scans in future. We'll also be

0:57.7

finding out where HIV came from and when it came on the scene and that's because

1:01.2

scientists have found a fossil version of the virus locked

1:03.7

away in Africa more coming up on that shortly and also the beetle that makes its own

1:08.0

antibiotics to control fungus growth that's all coming up Helen.

1:10.8

Thanks Chris also this week we're taking a look at new ways to treat and prevent cancer.

1:15.8

We'll be hearing how doctors have found a way to reprogram the immune system to destroy skin

1:20.3

cancers and about a new way to scan patients to pick up tumors when they're still

1:24.3

really tiny and we'll also be getting an update on the vaccine that's recently been launched

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr Chris Smith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr Chris Smith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.