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Well, on the Naked scientists this week how brains recognize faces, how a GM crop has solved one problem and created another one in the form of a new kind of plant pest and how Tibetans that live a

high altitudes have evolved a new set of unique genes to help them to tolerate

the levels of oxygen in the air. Hello I'm Chris Smith and also here this week is Diana O' Carroll. Hello Diana.

Yes, hello and also this week we're going to be looking at the science of synthetic biology.

How researchers are using nature's toolkit to produce artificial biological systems and even whole new forms of life.

That's all on the way, Chris.

Thank you very much, Diana.

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So this is the Naked Scientists with Chris Smith and Diana O'Carroll and now let's take a look at what's hot this week in the world of science news.

Diana what have you got for us?

This week a group of researchers from California have been able to spot the moment at which your brain recognizes a face.

And they've done this using the brain scanning technology known as FMRI or functional

magnetic resonance imaging.

The team led by Jesse Rissman had their test subjects

look at hundreds of faces from an image database. They were then shown a new

set of faces some of which had appeared in the database. As the subjects looked at each of these new pictures,

the researchers scanned their brains to see if anything happened.

And when the subjects did recognize a face,

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