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The Naked Scientists Podcast

HIV Under the Microscope

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, for World AIDS Day, we put HIV under the microscope, and talk to someone who's actually been cured, and the doctor who cured him. Plus, in the news, the UK becomes the first western country to approve a COVID vaccine, samples are successfully returned to Earth from an asteroid, and how an F1 driver walked away from what should have been a lethal 137mph crash... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:04.3

Hello.

0:05.3

Hello.

0:06.3

Welcome. Science, physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, the brain, life, the universe.

0:17.0

Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs

0:21.0

in science, technology and medicine. With me Chris Smith

0:24.6

and me Adam Murphy coming up the UK becomes the first Western country to approve a

0:29.5

COVID vaccine samples are successfully returned to Earth from an asteroid and how an F1 driver walked away

0:36.0

from what should have been a lethal 137 mile an hour crash.

0:41.0

Also for World AIDS Day we put HIV under the microscope and talk to someone who has actually

0:46.7

been cured and the doctor who cured him. Here how they did it.

0:50.9

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.

0:56.0

First this week there was cause for celebration as a COVID vaccine became a

1:06.7

regulator-approved reality in the UK.

1:09.7

All the time we've been waiting and hoping for the day when the searchlights of science

1:15.8

would pick out our invisible enemy and give us the power to stop that enemy from

1:22.0

making us ill and now the scientists have done it and they've used

1:28.0

the virus itself to perform a kind of biological Jiu-Jitsu.

1:33.0

And in fact because of that Jiu-Jitsu,

1:36.0

the UK has become the focus of world media attention

1:39.0

as the first Western nation to formally approve a coronavirus vaccine for public use.

1:44.4

Nevertheless, some are questioning why Britain's been able to move so fast.

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