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Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs

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medicine. With me Chris Smith and I'm James Titco. Coming up this week brain implants grown

in a lab wire themselves into the nervous system. Artificial intelligence joins the search

for extraterrestrial intelligence and are sugar taxes actually effective ways to

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Oh. Up first this week there's renewed hope for the millions of people affected by

brain injuries and degenerative diseases. Scientists have successfully grafted new lab-grown brain tissue

into the brains of rats and shown that the new tissue wires itself into the host

brain and responds electrically to signals from elsewhere in the animal's nervous system.

Although scientists have demonstrated over many years that new cells can be added to the brain,

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