Immune System
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Immune System
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Shappi Khorsandi, Prof Dan Davis and Prof Steve Jones to look at our amazingly complex and clever immune system. They look at how the human body fights disease, and why it has been so little understood until now. Fear not though, a new revolution in understanding is underway, with some extraordinary insights into the cunning of our little white cells. The panel look at how this new understanding is already leading to some real breakthroughs in treatment for diseases such as cancer, and Shappi reveals the crucial role she played in one such discovery.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:03.6 | And I'm Robin Hitz, and this week we are looking at health |
| 0:06.4 | because Brian and I are getting on a bit now. |
| 0:08.4 | Unusually, we are recording this show in early March, |
| 0:11.0 | because Robin is doing a summer season at Jodderall Bank |
| 0:13.4 | with Jim Alkalili and the crankies. |
| 0:16.0 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:17.2 | Hopefully you are listening to this on a jet-chair |
| 0:19.2 | in Frienton while eating a mive because, as we said, |
| 0:21.2 | we are basically breaking the laws of time. |
| 0:22.8 | This is March where we are speaking from |
| 0:25.8 | and you are hopefully sitting there in the middle of the summer. |
| 0:29.0 | So let's find out if Brian, because this is a great moment for you, |
| 0:32.2 | basically, you listening to this currently no more than Brian Cox. |
| 0:37.0 | Because Brian knows nothing about what happened in March, April, May or June. |
| 0:41.0 | So you are wiser than him, and let's find out, Brian, |
| 0:44.0 | give us one of your March predictions |
| 0:46.0 | and we'll find out if it's accurate in mid-summer. |
| 0:49.0 | I reckon that the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon |
| 0:52.0 | will have been shown to be a five-signary fact, |
| 0:54.0 | signalling new physics beyond the standard model. |
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