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eLife Episode 13: Making blind mice see and mosquitoes resistant to malaria - 14.07.31
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ...
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about using photographs to diagnose rare genetic disorders, an unexpected benefit of exercise, hybridizing fish species, the mysteries of the MECP2 gene, and the risks and benefits of using gene drives to ...
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Do you own a jealous dog? - 14.07.29
Dogs may become jealous if owners pay more attention to ...
Dogs may become jealous if owners pay more attention to another dog. ...
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Is there a genetic link to schizophrenia? - 14.07.29
A large international study has uncovered the strongest evidence yet ...
A large international study has uncovered the strongest evidence yet for a genetic link to schizophrenia. The study, published in Nature this week, is the work of a large collaborative group of scientists known collectively as the Psychiatric Genomic...
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Will reading as a child make you a smarter adult? - 14.07.29
Were you a bookworm as a child? If you were, ...
Were you a bookworm as a child? If you were, it might be making you smarter as an adult, according to a new study of identical twins, revealing that better reading ability at a younger age is linked to higher intelligence later in life.Kat spoke to p...
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The true cost of farming? - 14.07.28
When you're deciding what to have for dinner tonight, you ...
When you're deciding what to have for dinner tonight, you might like to think about the environmental impact the food you're choosing. It's long been known that vegetarian crops take up less room, and need less energy to grow than meat from farm anim...
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How windfarms affect seals? - 14.07.28
Seals are using windfarms and under sea pipelines as bases ...
Seals are using windfarms and under sea pipelines as bases for their hunting and fishing exploits. St Andrews University scientist Deborah Russell and her Dutch colleagues glued GPS trackers to the fur of seals living along the coastlines of Germany ...
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Gut bacteria seek out injuries - 14.07.18
Marshall Montrose, of the University of Cincinnati, explained to Chris ...
Marshall Montrose, of the University of Cincinnati, explained to Chris Smith how these gut bacteria, present in half the population's stomachs, can cause problems. Small wounds in the stomach lining, caused by things like aspirin, are quickly and eff...
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Obesity affects learning - 14.07.17
Ifat Levy from Yale University explains to Kat Arney her ...
Ifat Levy from Yale University explains to Kat Arney her recent study which looked at participants ability to learn in a task which exposed them to images of money and food. Obese women who were exposed to images of food during the task, showed impai...
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Is your sleep account in credit? - 14.07.08
Fruit flies to understand getting our sleep bank account in ...
Fruit flies to understand getting our sleep bank account in credit, how we perceive passing of time to help make up our minds in tricky situations. Plus in the news, people prefer shocks to thought. How long could you be left alone with your thoughts...
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Morality and Motivation - 14.07.06
Would you kill a person to save five others? Does ...
Would you kill a person to save five others? Does religion evade morality by omission? And can you tweak people's motivations? Reporting on Morality and Motivation in Milan, with breaking hot neuroscience research presented at the FENS 2014 conferenc...
