Meet the Doctors of Love!
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello, welcome to the naked scientist with me Chris Smith and also with Catani. |
| 0:21.4 | This week we meet the Doctors of Love. |
| 0:24.3 | We're hacking online dating, asking how to maximize your chances on that crucial first date, |
| 0:29.3 | finding out why some people are compatible while others are not and when one of these voice |
| 0:34.2 | samples was recorded this woman was at the peak of her fertility. |
| 0:38.0 | One two three four five one three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five. |
| 0:47.0 | But can you tell which one? |
| 0:52.0 | Stay tuned to hear how. Plus we have news that late night |
| 0:55.7 | texting and Facebook checking is affecting the sleep of young people, why chemistry |
| 1:00.1 | teachers have a lesson to learn about one of the world's most popular classroom |
| 1:03.5 | experiments and how scientists have created the world's first remote controlled sperm. |
| 1:09.2 | The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. |
| 1:14.0 | The UK. |
| 1:15.0 | According to the headlines you may have seen this week, you'd be forgiven for believing |
| 1:24.1 | that the UK is the first country in the world to permit doctors to create so-called |
| 1:28.2 | three-parent embryos. That's not strictly true, as we'll find out, but this is designed to help prevent usually lethal genetic diseases caused by defects in structures in our cells called mitochondria. |
| 1:40.0 | With us to discuss this is Robert Winston, Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London. |
| 1:45.0 | Hi, Kat. Actually, we're not the first country to permit mitochondrial transfer. |
| 1:51.0 | It's already been done in the United States 20 years ago and we haven't |
| 1:54.1 | permitted it in the UK yet. We have two Houses of Parliament and it hasn't gone |
| 1:57.6 | through the House of Lords. Hopefully it will and then there will be the |
| 2:00.6 | possibility of getting a license, but it's not permitted in the UK at the moment. |
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