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Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, the show that takes you to the cutting edge of

science, technology, medicine with me, Chris Smith and Katie

Haler. This week computers are supposedly there to help us but how easy are

they to use and program if you're disabled? We're looking at how to make

computing as inclusive as it can be.

Plus, news of the Nobel Prizes announced this week, a new test to find out whether chemotherapy

will work for your individual cancer and the whales that whisper to their young.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First this week colon cancer accounts for more than 10% of all cancer cases in countries

like the UK.

And one important question that bowel cancer patients often

face is whether or not to have chemotherapy,

because while this is guaranteed to cause side effects,

which are often unpleasant, there's a chance that it might not

affect the disease outcome at all. Which means you'd be suffering all those

side effects for nothing. So to find out who will and more critically who definitely won't benefit from chemotherapy,

researchers in the Netherlands have now developed a technique to grow a miniature version of a

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