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

with me, Chris Smith Smith and with Adam Murphy.

NASA have stated that they are heading back to the Moon in 2024.

This week we're finding out why and what's in store for us as we head back.

And in the news, cave paintings dated to 40,000 years ago

the strange magnetic fields that have been found around the sun

and the 3D printed rabbit with its own DNA.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Now first this week, imagine if your skin was so fragile that even the slightest knock caused it to blister and tear.

This is the reality for people with a condition called epidermalysis

Bilosa.

It occurs when a person inherits faulty copies of the genes that make the crucial skin protein collagen. But help may now be at hand.

Because Columbia University researcher Joanna Jakoff has found a way to make stem cells which are called IPS cells from patients skin cells.

Edit the faulty genes in those stem cells and use the now repaired cells to grow new

healthy skin. It's the first step towards skin replacements for patients

with these sorts of genetic diseases.

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