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On the program this week, the artificial spider silk

being made in the laboratory and a drug that stops zekavirus

infecting a developing baby.

Plus, our marine month continues

and brings us face to face with one of the deadliest animals on earth.

Hello, I'm Chris Smith and this is The Naked Scientists.

The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. And to kick us off this week some good news about zeka virus women who can track

zeka when they're pregnant are at risk of the infection spreading to the baby's brain

and causing the condition microkefully, a small head. Recent predictions suggest that more

than a million pregnant women might be at risk of infection across the Americas in the next few years.

But now, scientists have discovered that a drug that's already licensed for use in pregnancy

can actually block the spread of zeka virus from a mother's bloodstream into her developing baby.

It actually stops the virus from getting into the placenta that links the baby to its mother.

From Washington University in St Louis, Indira Mysorica.

Normally the Basanta is a fantastic barrier. You know, for the most part babies are born fine,

normal. And we found that this virus the reason it was causing such

terrible problems in the babies was because it was infecting the pacenta and then from

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