5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (314+ words) The Naked Scientists World Health Organization response to hantavirus Part of the show Hantavirus outbreak: cruising for a biological bruising We are going to get the latest on the outbreak now. Maria van Kerkhove is the head of the emerging…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (204+ words) Omer - We found that Indigenous Andeans have the highest copy number of the amylase gene, and we linked that to a selection that happened maybe 5, 000 to 10, 000 years ago, coinciding with the domestication of the potatoes. Chris - And amylase, of course,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (408+ words) Marcus - When we take pharmaceuticals or drugs, they break down into essentially components, which we call metabolites. Cocaine primarily breaks down to benzylecgonine, and this is the metabolite that we often find in high concentrations in the environment, along with…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (448+ words) Amy - So I am an astrobiologist, and I'm interested in whether there's life beyond Earth. One of the ways that we can explore this is by searching for the components that make up life as we know it. One of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (330+ words) WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Mark Fielder - a professor of medical microbiology at Kingston University - has been telling Chris Smith more about hantavirus infections" Chris - How does it spread normally if it's in these small animals like rats, and mice,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (114+ words) Chris - And what sorts of experiments do you have in mind, as in what kinds of projects could a breakthrough like that help to empower? Chris - Are we comfortable that this is a genetic resistance in the tree, then? It's…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1189+ words) The Naked Scientists Leaky blood-brain barrier sport dementia link Part of the show Chernobyl 40 years on, and countering ash dieback disease Head trauma in sport has been linked previously to an increased risk of developing dementia, although why wasn't know....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (824+ words) Across the world, millions of children grow up in poverty, and, consequently, enormous efforts are made by the international community to try to minimise inequalities and maximise the outcomes for these individuals. But without objective data documenting where problems lie,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (238+ words) Chris - How quickly do the changes, like those you've been outlining, kick in? Chris -People also talk about the fluid redistributing around the body. So a lot of it moves upwards because there isn't gravity pulling it downwards. You get…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (411+ words) Chris - So when people said that they'd gone a certain distance, or they were around the world a certain distance, they were saying, relative to my starting point, Greenwich, and hence that's why it became zero. Chris - Why is that?...