Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2011

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week's podcast is live from the British Society for Gene Therapy (BSGT) conference in Brighton, UK. Some of the world's top gene and stem cell therapists explain how we can manipulate genes to treat a variety of disorders, from cystic fibrosis and haemophilia to cancer and blindness. We hear what life is like as a haemophiliac and answer your questions, including whether gene therapy can alter all the cells in our bodies and how scientists account for the ethics and side effects of this research. Plus, is a human moustache like a cat's whiskers? Find out in Question of the Week! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientists.
0:07.0	The Naked Scientists, I'm Chris Smith. Hello it's Sunday the 30th of October.
0:22.8	Welcome to the Naked Scientists I'm Chris Smith.
0:24.6	I'm joined this week by Ben Valsler.
0:26.0	Hello this week we are coming live from Brighton where we're at a conference
0:29.7	with the British Society for gene therapy and its European counterpart, the ESGCT.
0:35.0	We'll be hearing about some of the latest developments in gene therapy and stem cell therapy,
0:39.0	including new treatments for hemophilia and also ovarian cancer. So if you'd like to get in touch, we do love to hear from you.
0:45.1	You can tweet at naked scientists right on our Facebook page, that's at the naked scientist.
0:50.3	com slash Facebook, or you can drop us an email. Our email address is Chris at the Naked
0:55.2	Scientists.com.
0:58.6	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UK Fast, the UK's best hosting provider on the web at UKfast.co.
1:07.0	UK.
1:10.0	UK.
1:11.0	This is the Naked Scientists and we are joined by a panel of scientists from all over the world this week including Simon
1:18.2	Waddington and Adrian Thrasher from UCL and Maria Lemberis from the University of Pennsylvania.
1:23.0	Now it's been a packed program here at the conference all week,
1:26.0	so starting with you Simon, what's been your personal highlight?
1:30.0	I think one of the most amazing things actually at this conference has been the reports of gene
1:36.6	therapy vectors that have been designed for targeting the central nervous system.
1:41.0	So there are a variety of diseases that affect better children that are lethal.
1:45.0	And so the only way of actually treating these at the moment is actually is palatively.
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