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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Stem Cells and Cloning

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2007

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Award Winning Naked Scientists we find out about stem cells and cloning. We discuss the elusive 'stemness' that allows cells to specialise, and learn about cloning in the post-Dolly the sheep era. We also find out how genetics has revealed that Neanderthals were redheads, how soap affects shoals of fish and some turtles come equipped with anti-roll bars. We also pay a visit to the Manchester Science Festival for a chat with Johnny Ball, and in Kitchen Science, we "clone at home" and find out the future of the humble banana. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Stripping down science, the naked scientist.

0:37.0

Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with me Chris Smith and also with Helen Scales.

0:42.0

Hi Helen. Now on this

0:43.9

week's program how scientists have discovered a suicide switch for

0:47.1

bacteria and researchers think that it could hold the key to some powerful new

0:50.2

antibiotics so we'll be finding out about that shortly.

0:53.0

Also how soap suds are preventing fish from forming shoals.

0:56.5

Apparently the detergents they use stop them smelling each other,

0:59.4

and also beating off sunburn with a dose of, guess what, broccoli.

1:02.6

Scientists have discovered that it can ward off the effects of UV rays, so that's all

1:06.1

on the way.

1:07.1

Also under the microscope this week is the science of stem cells, chimeric embryos and cloning technology.

1:12.6

We'll be talking with Ian Wilmot, the scientist who created Dolly the Sheep

1:16.4

and the stem cell researcher Roger Peterson to discover what's involved.

1:19.8

Plus we'll also be hearing from Ben Velsler, who's been to the Manchester Science Festival where, among other people he met this luminary who some of you might remember.

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