Rosalind Franklin: the hidden story of DNA

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week we're celebrating the hundredth birthday of DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin and how her work helped to unravel the DNA helix. Plus, in the news: COVID causes heart damage, water shortages in England thanks to climate change, and magic bullets to make shellfish more nutritious... 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.
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0:09.2	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist,
0:18.0	the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.
0:22.0	I'm Chris Smith. And I'm Eva Higginbotham. This week
0:25.3	we're celebrating the 100th birthday of DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin and how her work helped to unravel
0:31.2	the DNA helix.
0:32.6	Plus in the news, COVID causes heart damage,
0:35.7	water shortages in England thanks to climate change
0:38.8	and magic bullets to make shellfish more nutritious.
0:42.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First this week despite the fact that COVID is a respiratory disease that spreads
0:57.7	chiefly through the air and causes lung infections the repercussions of the
1:01.2	disease are felt throughout the body, including in the heart.
1:04.5	A new study out this week looking at patients admitted to hospital with COVID has found that half of them had evidence of heart damage caused by the disease.
1:13.0	British Heart Foundation cardiologist Mark Duck led the study.
1:16.5	We know from other viral infections that viruses and other bugs can cause problems with heart function. We know with COVID-19 that people who have
1:25.6	pre-existing heart disease are more likely to get COVID infections and have more serious
1:30.5	disease. And does that mean then that COVID causes heart problems or is it just that we're seeing an
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