There are around 400 million global cases of UTIs or urinary tract infections per year, and they can often persist, but why? Researchers in the UK have been using artificial bladders to find out what makes them stick around. Joining Jonathan to discuss is Prof Jennifer Rohn, Professorial Research Fellow in Renal Medicine at University College London and Head of the Centre for Urological Biology.

Futureproof Extra: Exploring why UTIs persist with artificial bladders

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Guests this week: Dr Aidan Boran - Founder/CEO at Digital Gait Labs @aidan_boran  &  Professor Seán Kennelly - Consultant Geriatrician and Director of the Institute of Memory & Cognition at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) @SPKennelly @TUH_Tallaght

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George Musser - Contributing editor for Scientific American magazine and author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

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Professor Johanna Vos - Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College

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Dr. Siobhan Power - Geologist with the Geological Survey Ireland

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John Krakauer - Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins

Futureproof Extra: Exploring why UTIs persist with artificial bladders

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