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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Memories: Making Them & Faking Them

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take a trip down memory lane. How scientists can implant false memories, wipe memory away, and the link between head injuries and Alzheimer's disease. Plus, in the news, farewell to Cassini, the science of hurricanes, and how scientists are now able to see what's in the atmospheres of remote planets hundreds of light years away. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.2

Hello.

0:04.2

Hello.

0:05.2

Welcome.

0:06.2

Science.

0:09.2

And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.

0:16.1

This week a fond farewell to the spacecraft, Cassini, the science of hurricanes and how scientists

0:21.8

can now see what's in the atmosphere of a remote

0:24.4

planet hundreds of light years away. Plus later in the program we're taking a

0:29.6

trip down memory lane. One girl was saying how she had a rock in her hand and she was

0:36.4

attacking a love rival and she'd gone at her and thrown this really big rock and

0:40.9

so she was reenacting in front of me this crime that never happened. this head injuries and Alzheimer's. Hello, I'm Chris Smith, and this is The Naked Scientists.

0:55.0

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. UK. First up, let's take a look at what's been making science headlines around the world and bacteria could be

1:12.2

conspiring with cancer to block the action of

1:15.2

chemotherapy drugs. According to scientists in Israel bacteria can get inside tumors

1:19.7

and even inside cancer cells themselves and then use their own metabolic machinery to protect the tumor cells by breaking down anti-cancer treatments like the drug Jem Citibbean.

1:31.0

Ravid Straussman.

1:32.0

They can either come probably from the bloodstream into the tumors

1:35.0

or because we were exploring pancreatic cancers

1:38.0

there might come from the gastrointestinal track.

1:41.0

We can see them in different methods, we can characterize them, we know

1:45.8

which bacteria they are, and we know can really affect the sensitivity of these cancer

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