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Hello, it's Sunday the 15th of January in 2012.

Welcome to the Naked Scientist. I'm Chris Smith and also here this week is Helen.

Hello Helen.

Hello.

Now this week we're taking the human experience to the next level because we're exploring

cybernetics, including a new visual implant that could restore vision to blind people,

and brain interfaces that can directly decode nerve activity to control robotic arms and other devices. And in other news, we'll hear from the man who made an H5N1 flu virus with pandemic potential,

but he then found himself at the centre of a scientific controversy.

Indeed, the work can't actually be published over fears that terrorists could cook up their own version of the viruses made.

But Ron Fusier did talk to us about his other concerns.

Many of the mutations that we have introduced with genetic modification

are already found in the field.

So it's now a matter of chance of a mammal running into a chicken that has a virus with those mutations and then in

that mammal it can accumulate the extra mutations and then we would be in trouble.

We'll have the full story later in the show. Meanwhile if you have any questions or

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