Vets Beyond Pets

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week; horse racing, equine flu, a hedgehog hospital and a trip to the local zoo - we're looking at how vets keep animals healthy and why that's good news for humans too. Plus, how a dose of caffeine perks up a solar panel, cell transplants to boost wound and tissue repair, and a gene breakthrough for obesity... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Hello.
0:06.3	Welcome.
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0:08.3	Science and that is to say physics medicine nature
0:12.6	or big time a grain life the universe
0:16.9	Hello this week horse racing equine flu a hedgehog hospital and a trip to the local zoo
0:22.4	We're looking at how to keep animals
0:24.4	healthy and why that's good news for us humans too. Plus how a dose of caffeine
0:29.0	perks up a solar panel, cell transplants to boost wound and tissue repair and a gene breakthrough for obesity.
0:35.0	I'm Adam Murphy.
0:36.0	I'm Chris Smith and this is The Naked Scientists.
0:39.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
0:45.0	UK.
0:47.0	First this week, initial steps towards developing a better way to use transplanted
0:55.0	cells to repair wounds and regenerate tissues has been developed by scientists at the
0:59.2	University of Bristol. The breakthrough was coding the cells with a molecule called thrombin.
1:04.2	This is normally produced in a wound to help blood to clot, which it does by converting a
1:08.8	substance from the bloodstream called fibrinogen into a sticky meshwork that glues
1:12.4	the wound together.
1:14.0	Now the ultimate goal is to take a patient's own stem cells, culture them in a dish and then
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