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  • Stem Cells and the Organoids
    From 2014 listen to Professor Michael Morris on investigating the basic science of embryology to find out how embryonic stem cells become all other cells.
    2024 news of the Internet Archive is down, and AI clones report the news with unexpected Organoids.
    From 2014 Crocodiles climb, and use tools, while alligators make video
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    29 min
  • Healing corneas and making robots
    From 2014: Sony smart wigs, DARPA brain impants for memory,
    and prosthetic hands that feel by Ian Woolf.
    Professor Stephanie Watson spoke with Ian Woolf about how she heals corneas with stem cells,
    From the 2014 Sydney Mini Maker Faire:
    Pete from Robogirls teaches schoolgirls to build lego robots,
    Stephen Martin from BotBits talks about building kit combat robots
    Diarmid Herath from Robological has a platform for you to design your own robots
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    29 min
  • 2024 Nobel Prizes
    Listen to The Physiology or Medicine prize for micro-RNA , the Physics Prize for machine learning software, the Chemistry Prize for the use of machine learning to identify the shape of proteins, and the use of machine learning to create new proteins.
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    28 min
  • Obsolete Cyborgs
    Listen to NotebookLM AI voices discover they are an artificial intelligence, and news of obsolete cyborgs.
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    29 min
  • World Sepsis Day
    Listen to Professor Simon Finfer talk about how to identify and treat the deadly condition sepsis, and the importance of teaching doctors and the general public to check for the symptoms, on World Sepsis Day.
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    29 min
  • Health in Space - part 4
    Listen to Dr Gabrielle Caswell talk about the way forward for Australia's place in space. And a brief blast from the past interview with students working on space health from 2017. News of untrustworthy AI podcasters and mouldy space stations.
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    30 min
  • Health in Space - part 3
    Listen to Dr Gabrielle Caswell talk about the Global Spaceport alliance, International space programs and how microgravity affects the structure of the proteins in our bodies, and in the microbes that live inside us, with news of an approaching mini-moon.
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    29 min
  • Health in Space - part 2
    Listen to Dr Gabrielle Caswell in the second part of this series on Space Health! In this episode, we talk about space medicine, space colonies and space education.
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    29 min
  • Health in Space - part 1
    Listen to part 1 of a special series of Dr Gabrielle Caswell talking about human health in space, the stranded astronauts, and what happens when ordinary people go into space.
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    30 min
  • Reframing Obesity
    Listen to Dr Kathryn Williams explain why we need to reframe obesity as a chronic disease, and subsidise its treatment.
    How I used AI to create a song about obesity using my own voice.
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