The Hello, Hello and this week I've had a horrible cold so I sound like this.

We'll find out how 4,000 year old mummies had clogged arteries.

Also scientists discover what controls when a cockrel wakes you up in the morning. And a totally new type of antibiotic that might help to tackle drug resistance.

Plus cholera.

It's the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Snow, the doctor who had the handle removed

from a water pump to stop a cholera outbreak in London's Soho. We take a look at his legacy

and we'll find out how we're continuing to fight cholera using modern science.

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Now first joining us for a look at what's been making science headlines this week. It's Cambridge University, Neuroscientist David Western

and Laurie Winkless from the National Physical Laboratory.

So, Kat, you're up first.

Tell us about mummies and heart disease.

Well now many people think that life was better in the good old days and we didn't

get all these horrible modern illnesses, but what about the good old days back in ancient

Egypt?

Now according to research published this week by an international team of

scientists and mummy experts in the journal The Lancet, it turns out that one of the

diseases that's usually thought of as an affliction of modern life, that's

atherosclerosis or clogging and hardening of the arteries,

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