What The Heck Is Xenobiology?
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.0 | Science. |
| 0:09.0 | And that is the same physics, medicine, |
| 0:11.0 | nature, |
| 0:12.0 | space, time, the brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, this week we meet the biologists who are inventing a new form of genetic |
| 0:20.3 | information. This is the field called xenobiology and they've got very high hopes for it. |
| 0:25.6 | Plus, a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer, the video game that tackles fake news and scientists make progress in Parkinson's. I'm Isie Clark. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists. |
| 0:38.9 | The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. |
| 0:43.7 | K.k. |
| 0:50.7 | We kick off this week with a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer. |
| 0:54.0 | Scientists in London have discovered how to grow miniature copies of a patient's cancer. |
| 0:58.5 | These are so-called organoids in a laboratory dish. |
| 1:02.0 | These mini cancers can then be used to screen over 50 |
| 1:05.8 | different cancer drugs to find very quickly the combinations of treatments that |
| 1:10.3 | either will or won't work for that person. |
| 1:14.0 | Study author Nicola Valerri is at the Royal Marsden. |
| 1:17.0 | The key issue we have when we face new drugs and new trials for patients |
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