Stopping Superbugs
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2013
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A frozen Berry blast, please. |
| 0:02.0 | All right, love. |
| 0:03.0 | Do you know what I've done? |
| 0:04.0 | Now, what have you done? |
| 0:05.0 | You see Pete sleeping over there. |
| 0:07.0 | I got the sun cream, but I've only got on a drawer. |
| 0:09.0 | On his back. |
| 0:11.0 | I love it, really. Oh, but that's not Pete, isn't it? Oh very funny. |
| 0:17.0 | Avoid having the wrong kind of fun in the sun with free prescription |
| 0:20.5 | sunglasses at Spexavers when you buy a pair of glasses from |
| 0:23.6 | 70 pounds or above with single vision lenses to the same prescription. |
| 0:27.1 | Terms of conditions apply see in store for details. You're going to be. Hello, scientists with me Chris Smith and also with cat onie hella cat. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello and this week Jurassic Park comes to life |
| 0:57.1 | perhaps as blood is extracted from a fossilized mosquito |
| 1:01.0 | and we take a look at the Spanish slugs that are invading |
| 1:04.2 | Britain's back gardens plus superbugs how scientists are using new technology |
| 1:09.0 | to study and stop the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria. |
| 1:12.8 | You're shedding about 15 million bacterial cells into the immediate environment around you every minute. |
| 1:18.5 | Those 15 million cells comprise mostly of bacteria associated with skin, but they also come from your nose and your mouth |
| 1:25.4 | and interestingly even from your gastrointestinal system via your trousers and onto the seats you're sitting on. |
| 1:32.0 | And on the subject of bugs for our scientific teaser this week, |
| 1:35.6 | a cryptic clue for you. |
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