Malaria infection trial, and weeing chimpanzees

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On the Naked Scientists News show: a new UK trial seeks to infect healthy people with malaria in a bid to get to grips with the dormant stage of the infection. Then, we hear how T cells could be the key to ensuring more organ transplant successes, and should we all be taking fewer flights? Also, some curious observations regarding chimpanzees and their communal toilet routines... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:31.5	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:36.9	What that potentially means is discovery, advances, research, technology, unbelievable.
0:39.3	Without further ado, this is the Naked scientists. Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast. This is the program that brings you
0:44.9	the biggest breakthroughs and talks to the major moves and shakers in the worlds of science,
0:49.3	technology and medicine. With me, Chris Smith. Coming up, a UK malaria trial that's going to see people
0:55.5	deliberately infected with the parasite. But why? And what's this going to reveal? Also, why it's
1:01.6	not just yawning that's contagious. Urination is as well, at least among chimpanzees, and we'll
1:07.3	hear how scientists flush that one out. and we look at ways that the aviation industry
1:12.1	might be able to cut down its carbon footprint.
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