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This week we are rounding off our month of Extreme Shows.

We've been extremely cold, extremely deep, extremely fast and extremely curious, now it's time for some extremely high science.

Plus sniffing out methane on Mars and scientists have been making sweet music with proteins.

But why?

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I'm Katie Haler and this is The Naked Scientists.

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Now you've probably heard of a remote controlled car, but what about a remote

controlled stem cell? A team at the University of Birmingham have just launched a

project to use magnetic nanoparticles that can be glued onto receptors on the surface of cells

and used to control where those cells go in the body and what they do.

Alicia El-Hage, who's leading the initiative, presented the work at a conference in Cambridge

this week. By using a magnetic field, the magnetized cells can be guided to where they're

needed and the magnetic field pulsed to make the cells transform into new cell types or secrete growth and repair factors.

Chris found out more.

So I'm interested in cell therapies, how we use cells to treat patients and cure disease disease and the problem we have is how to

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