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

With me, Chris Smith. Coming up, diabetes fixed with stem cells. Scientists reprogram a patient's fat to produce insulin.

Also why some security specialists are worried Chinese made electric cars could

take us for a ride. how do they pose a threat?

And our interview with world famous Stargazer and physicist Brian Cox.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists. First this week a woman with type 1 diabetes has started to produce her own

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