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Hello and welcome to the Naked Scientists with me Dr. Kat. I'm here this week to present my

highlights from our shows throughout the year and I hope you enjoy my selections. Coming up

later we'll be hearing how researchers are getting ever closer to developing a bionic man.

There is a lot of application in biomedical research.

One particular project we're looking at is how to make prosthetic skin so a

skin that a patient who's lost a limb for example could a skin that they could

wear just like a glove so they would wear this on top of a prosthetic limb and the skin would allow

them to get some sensory feedback which is not possible today.

Alan Tichmarsh explains why the humble garden pond is important as a thriving ecosystem.

If you think of the things within the landscape that use a pond from birds coming down to

drink, hedgehogs and mammals coming down to drink, the pond life that's in the depths there and in the shallows from

Ponskaters and Water Boatmen to Nutes, frogs, tobes, damselfies, dragonflies, you

start to build up this list and you think all that just from a little patch of clean water and that's the vital thing and the answer is yes and anybody can make one.

And Ben and Dave get experimental with party food, exploring the science of fruit jelly.

Well it looks like perfect jelly really. It's firm, it's, in fact I shall have a bit myself,

it's firm, it's set properly, it's, uh, it's very lemony very good.

Plus developments in cancer treatment how new diseases emerge

musical mosquitoes stabbing potatoes and getting funky in the studio That's all coming up and if you'd like to get in touch with any questions or comments about my selection

the email address is Chris at the Naked Scientist.com

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