Dinosaur auction, Who owns the genes of the ocean life, Cancer immunotherapy
BBC Inside Science
BBC
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A spectacular predatory dinosaur fossil was auctioned this week in Paris. It was bought by a private collector at the cost of about 2 million Euros. Academic palaeontologists are not happy about the sale. Anjali Goswami of the Natural History Museum and Steve Brussatte of Edinburgh University air their views to Adam Rutherford on the legal and illegal markets for premium vertebrate fossils.
Who owns the genetic biodiversity of the oceans? One single multinational corporation - the chemicals giant BASF - has registered almost half of all known patents on genetic sequences from marine organisms. This is the headline finding of a survey of marine genetic resource ownership by David Blasiak of the Global Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.
Immunotherapies for cancer have been in the news in the last week. Adam talks to cancer researchers Sophie Papa of Kings College, London and Samra Turaljik of the Royal Marsden Hospital about the principles behind immunotherapy and the different approaches in the clinic and under clinical trials.
Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker
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| 0:56.3 | and melt into the southern ocean. |
| 0:58.1 | And then we're heading north to eavesdrop on a strange song of the unicorn of the sea, |
| 1:02.4 | the narwhal off the coast of Greenland. |
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| 1:14.6 | the sounds of Arctic ice how the science of cryoacoustics is helping us to understand climate change |
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