It's science,

science, but not as you know it.

The Naked Scientists.

Hello, are using cloning to create spare parts to repair brains. That's because

researchers have tailor-made nerve cells that they can then use to treat mice

with a form of Parkinson's disease. Also we're going to be finding out how a

squids beak has helped scientists to come up with a new way to join different types of materials together.

And that could mean things like better bone implants.

And we'll also be hearing how researchers have found a way to help people who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Now that usually takes the form of rather terrifying flashbacks which are provoked by harrowing

experiences and we'll be hearing how they found a way to break that cycle.

That's all on the way.

Ben. Thanks, Chris. Now the reason we're in Scotland this week is to take part in the Society for General Microbiology's Edinburgh Conference. So this week's show is all about bacteria. University of Edinburgh researcher Dr Sarah Stanaland will be joining us to explain how some

bacteria make miniature magnets inside themselves, and they do that to line up with the Earth's

magnetic field amongst other things. She will be explaining why they do that to line up with the Earth's magnetic field amongst other things.

She will be explaining why they do it and how we can use them to help combat cancer,

amongst other stuff. We'll also be talking to infectious disease expert Dr Clifford

Leine about the problem of tuberculosis, which is making

a comeback in Britain, as well as hearing how satellites are helping to pinpoint future hotspots

for a deadly disease. Vidoplankton can be monitored using sensors in satellites.

So that allows us then to have a global predictive capacity for Colorado.

That's Rita Colwell, who will be talking to us later about cholera.

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