Getting to Grips with Gene Therapy

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week - gene therapy. We talk to researchers using DNA technology to prevent blindness, halt muscular dystrophy, and even potentially cure HIV. Plus, what climate change means for the state of the world's oceans, a new satellite to take the Earth's temperature, and scientists discover the world's first baby bottles - and the milk that was in them - from thousands of years ago... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, you're listening to the naked scientist.
0:18.0	This is the show where we take a look at the week's leading science breakthroughs with me, Chris Smith and with Katie
0:22.5	Hala. Coming up gene therapy. We talk to researchers using DNA technology to
0:28.0	prevent blindness, halt muscular dystrophy and even potentially cure HIV.
0:34.4	Plus what climate change means for the state of the world's oceans,
0:38.4	a new satellite to take the Earth's temperature
0:41.0	and scientists discover the world's first baby bottles and the
0:44.4	milk they would have contained from thousands of years ago.
0:47.7	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. K.
0:53.2	Now, first this week you probably encountered this story in the news in the last few days.
1:03.7	A warning from the UN, extreme flooding could be happening every year by 2050.
1:10.6	That came about because earlier in the week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC,
1:16.6	published a special report on changes happening to the oceans and ice sheets.
1:21.2	Widespread ice. was documented.
1:24.0	Rates of ocean warming, which have doubled since 1993 were highlighted.
1:29.0	Rising sea levels were cited as major ongoing and future risks,
1:32.0	as were climate-related hazards for coastal
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