Parasites, Hookworms and Allergies

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2005

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week Prof. David Pritchard gets to the bottom of why parasites may help to get rid of allergies, Elizabeth Bernays describes how caterpillars acquire a taste for plants containing toxic chemicals when they have parasites, Chris Smith visits Westbourne High School in Ipswich to carry out fitness experiments for Healthcare Science Week, and Dave and Derek go bang with an explosive electrolysis experiment in the Naked Scientists Laboratory. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Live from the BBC, the BBC The Naked Scientists.
0:07.0	Hello good evening everyone, you're listening to the naked scientists on the BBC in the
0:11.9	Eastern counties with me, Dr.
0:13.6	Kat, Dr Sarah, hello and the ever beautiful and wonderful Mandy Morton working
0:17.9	the desks for us.
0:18.9	Good evening.
0:19.9	Because we have parasitized Chris's show to talk about parasites. Parasites are kind of bugs and stuff
0:26.0	and ugh that live on us and in us and around us. We're going to be talking to Professor
0:30.1	David Pritchard from Nottingham University about his work.
0:33.3	Good evening David.
0:34.3	Good evening.
0:35.3	So what are you going to be talking to us about?
0:37.2	I'm going to be telling you how we're trying to exploit parasites to discover new medicines for the treatment of diseases such as asthma and
0:45.1	crones.
0:46.1	Excellent.
0:47.1	So we're going to be hearing about that later.
0:48.4	If you've got any questions for David about parasites, about his research and also about allergies because Dr Sarah here is a
0:55.1	GP who can talk all about allergies. Get phoning in with your questions for David
0:59.6	and for Sarah. Also coming up later we're going to be talking to Professor Elizabeth Bernays at the University of Arizona
1:05.3	who's been looking at what caterpillars like to eat and what happens when they get
1:09.5	parasitised as well. So that will be coming up and also we've got kitchen science which is an
1:14.8	explosive experiment that you really shouldn't try at home so Dave and Derek
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