Tagged: health
how the pulse changes
visitors this year: 43 The speed of your pulse changes as you go about your day. It changes as you sit, walk or exercise. It is quite easy to record your pulse using the...
monitor breathing
visitors this year: 265 Is your breathing steady while you sit restfully? How does it change when you talk? How does it change when you exercise? How quickly do you recover after exercise? To...
data on breakfast cereals
visitors this year: 47 Datasets (files) like the one below are useful in science. They have data to analyse by drawing graphs. The file below is in a ‘CSV’ format. Open this one in your...
pH data on souring milk
visitors this year: 122 The label on my milk bottle tells me how long the milk will ‘last’ at different temperatures. What do they measure to make this assessment? Is it the pH? I summoned...
measure pulse with a sound sensor
visitors this year: 45 You can sense the human pulse cheaply using a sound sensor. While pulse sensors can now be found even in phones, using a sound sensor works too. Hold a sound...
scientist 66: the science journalist – report from the MRC LMB Cambridge (2014)
visitors this year: 1,098 Dr Chris Creese and Roger Frost tour the LMB-MRC open day exhibition and learn about body clocks and worms. Follow-up link Read more at Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
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scientist 65: the cytologist – Melina Schuh oocytes and reproduction (2014)
visitors this year: 1,088 The topic is how we make the eggs that make our babies or in other words: meiosis in mammalian oocytes. Molecular biology research happens at the Medical Research Council lab...
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scientist 64: the molecular biologist – Hugh Pelham at MRC LMB Cambridge (2014)
visitors this year: 1,289 The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge is credited for landmark discoveries and cutting-edge techniques. This podcast offers an overview of what the LMB do. On the occasion of the Medical Research Council centenary,...
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scientist 63: the molecular gastronomist – Peter Barham on gastronomy (2014)
visitors this year: 1,098 We talk with Peter Barham, a professor of ‘Molecular Gastronomy’ about what his delicious subject entails. He wrote the book “The Science of Cooking”. His idea is that “a kitchen...
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scientist 59: the psychiatrist – Karen Ersche cocaine addiction (2013)
visitors this year: 352 Dr Karen Ersche tells about her research into cocaine addiction. The work investigates the finding that cocaine addiction affects some people and not others. Also, unlike other addictions, there are no substitute...
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scientist 57: the gastroenterologist – Stephen Middleton Smart pill for IBS (2013)
visitors this year: 361 An electronic medical procedure offers an innovative way for doctors to find out what’s going on inside the intestine. The ‘SmartPill’ is a tablet-sized device with sensors to take measurements...
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scientist 54: the anesthetist – Dr Kentish is an anesthesiologist (2013)
visitors this year: 404 Have you ever had surgery in an operating theatre? If like us you wondered what the anaesthetist does while you’re out, hear Dr Jessica Kentish tell what her work entails. We met...
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scientist 47: the drug discovery chemist – how medicines are discovered (2012)
visitors this year: 475 In this podcast, a Cambridge chemist talks about drug discovery. Sean McKenna, a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, describes techniques that take the guesswork out of making pills. We think...
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scientist 46: the bioengineer – Michelle Oyen develops and uses new materials (2012)
visitors this year: 341 Dr Michelle Oyen is a Reader in bioengineering at the University of Cambridge. Dy Oyen explains how materials science can be put to use in medicine where there’s a need to create surgical...
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scientist 43: the virologist – Derek Smith influenza mutation and vaccination (2013)
visitors this year: 497 Did you know you have a 1 in 10 chance of getting the flu? In times when cancers can be treated, FLU or INFLUENZA continues to infect vast numbers of...
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scientist 42: the clinical immunologist – Mark Larche on pet and grass allergies (2013)
visitors this year: 543 A UK biotechnology company has been testing vaccines for common allergies. The vaccines use SPIREs (synthetic peptides that regulate immune system cells) to help people fend off their allergies to...
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scientist 35: the biotechnologist – Difinigen clone liver cells for pharmacology (2013)
visitors this year: 319 We talk to Dr Marcus Yeo about how human cell production benefits drug development. Dr Yeo is from DifiniGEN, a Cambridge company that grows liver cells used to test if...
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scientist 33: the entrepreneur – Felix Baumgartner’s skyjump (2012)
visitors this year: 320 Our guest Anmol Sood of Hildago was on the team that monitored Felix Baumgartner health as he jumped from the edge of space and reached a speed of over 800...
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scientist 32: the experimental psychologist – Cambridge Cognition tests for Alzheimers disease (2012)
visitors this year: 287 Dr Jenny Barnett of Cambridge Cognition speaks about the neuropsychological tests they develop including one designed for the early detection of dementia. Their test is to be used in a...
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scientist 30: the social psychologist – cleanliness and perception (2012)
visitors this year: 297 Does cleanliness affect perception? University of Cambridge psychology PhD student, Dario Krpan thinks so. He discusses how the state of our body affects how we perceive things. For example, feeling...
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scientist 21: the experimental psychologist – Alzheimers disease – love addiction (2012)
visitors this year: 351 Experimental psychologist Brianne Kent talks to Chris Creese about memory, Alzheimer’s disease; and why love is a drug. Brianne Kent was working on a PhD in experimental psychology at the...
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scientist 19: the sun seeker – travel advice (2012)
visitors this year: 372 The Science Show’s Chris Creese looks at the science behind travel health advice and offers tips on sun cream and more. Follow-up link: Look up the area to where you’ll be...
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scientist 08: the journal editor – parasitology and parasites (2012)
visitors this year: 291 Journal editor Sally Hirst talks about a group of micro-organisms called parasites. Tagged biology, health 30/06/2012
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scientist 02: the diet doctor – promoting a Mediterranean diet (2012)
visitors this year: 353 The sponsors of the London Olympic games included a fizzy drink maker; a fast food restaurant and a chocolate brand, so we go in search of advice on a healthy...
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scientist 01: the cancer researcher – working to save the Tasmanian devil (2012)
visitors this year: 411 Hear about a cute animal with the less cute name of the Tasmanian Devil. It is fast becoming extinct as it can suffer from an unusual cancer that is contagious....
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Molecular Gastronomy with Peter Barham plus Improving cycling using psychology – 105science
visitors this year: 130 We talk with Peter Barham, a professor of ‘Molecular Gastronomy’ about what his delicious subject entails. He wrote the book “The Science of Cooking”. His idea is that “a kitchen...
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Bioengineering research in Cambridge – 105science
visitors this year: 65 Dr Michelle Oyen is a Reader in bioengineering at the University of Cambridge. Dy Oyen explains how materials science can be put to use in medicine where there’s a need to create surgical...
Screening for prostate cancer with Dr Hayley Whitaker – 105science
visitors this year: 80 Dr Hayley Whitaker is a Cancer Research UK scientist who specialises in prostate cancer. We hear about her quest for better screening for the disease. Dr Whitaker is lead author of a...
Influenza: the flu, the virus and the vaccine with Professor Derek Smith – 105science
visitors this year: 98 Professor Derek Smith of Cambridge University tells how flu, also known as Influenza, so successfully eludes the immune system. In times when cancers can be treated, FLU or INFLUENZA continues...
Dr Mark Larché and new hope for allergy sufferers – 105science
visitors this year: 77 A UK biotechnology company has been testing vaccines for common allergies. The vaccines use SPIREs (synthetic peptides that regulate immune system cells) to help people fend off their allergies to...
SmartPill comes to Cambridge and we play the Science Fact and Fiction quiz – 105science
visitors this year: 69 A new pill can diagnose you from the inside out. A new medical procedure offers an innovative way for doctors to find out what’s going on inside the intestine. The ‘SmartPill’...
Introduction to anaesthesiology – we visit the Royal Society summer science exhibition – 105science
visitors this year: 53 Hear about the wonders of anaesthesia. Have you ever had surgery in an operating theatre? If like us you wondered what the anaesthetist does, listen in to hear Dr Jessica Kentish tell...
Molecular biology research at the Medical Research Council lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge – 105science
visitors this year: 44 The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge is credited for landmark discoveries and cutting-edge techniques. This podcast offers an overview of what the LMB do, as the Science Show team...
Research into cocaine addiction – 105science
visitors this year: 115 COCAINE ADDICTION is DIFFERENT. Dr Karen Ersche tells about her research into cocaine addiction. The work investigates the finding that cocaine addiction affects some people and not others. Also, unlike other addictions, there...
Drug discovery special – 105science
visitors this year: 51 DifiniGEN is a new Cambridge University spin-off company who have a process for growing human liver cells. CEO Dr Marcus Yeo explains how their cells are used by pharmaceutical companies, to test if...
Researching the invertebrate that lives in puddles: bdelloid rotifer – 105science
visitors this year: 21 Professor Alan Tunnacliffe of the Cambridge University Department of Chemical Engineering tells why the bdelloid rotifer has fascinated top biologists. This microscopically tiny invertebrate lives in rain puddles. The creature can survive without water...
Modelling chemistry of the atmosphere – 105science
visitors this year: 32 See here for the interview scientist 34: the atmospheric scientist – John Pyle & atmospheric ozone (2012) Missing show, but the interview is above. We visit the Centre for Atmospheric...
