
BBC Inside Science
BBC Radio 4
Radio: BBC Radio Cymru 2
Categories: Science & Medicine
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In the new EU-UK deal, the UK is to be an associate member of the latest EU research funding round, known as Horizon Europe. costing around £2bn to take part, what can UK scientists now do and what has changed? UKRI CEO Otteline Leyser and the Wellcome Trust EU specialist Beth Thompson discuss ways in which UK researchers are breathing a sigh of relief. Of all the things the UK can now diverge from the EU, DEFRA is currently holding an open consultation on whether to tweak the current GMO regulations so as not to include CRISPR style Genetic Editing. The EU is coincidentally looking at the same issue. John Innes Centre's Janneke Balk works on making strains of wheat that have a higher level of iron for nutrituiional fortification. Interim head of the Roslin Institute in Scotland Bruce Whitelaw thinks developing disease resistance in farm animals is potentially profitable area. Both agree the GMO regulations should be more tightly specified to bring clarity and opportunity for innovation. In Iceland, Kari Stefansson's company Decode Genetics analyse the genetic codes of most of the population of Iceland. This has allowed them to look at the parents, siblings, and offspring of identical twins, and identify how early genetic differences between them develop. And it's very early indeed. Given that identical twins studies are so often used to address issues surrounding the so-called Nature-vs Nurture debate, the findings, published in the Journal Nature, are striking. Presenter by Marnie Chesterton Produced by Alex Mansfield Made in association with the Open University.
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391 - Vaccine Dosing and Biodiversity Soundscape Monitoring Thu, 07 Jan 2021
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390 - Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science Thu, 31 Dec 2020
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388 - Covid mutation; On the facial expression of emotions; A mystery object Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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387 - Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees Thu, 10 Dec 2020
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385 - 26/11/2020 Thu, 26 Nov 2020
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384 - COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life Thu, 19 Nov 2020
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383 - mRNA vaccinations; bacterial space miners; Artemis accords Thu, 12 Nov 2020
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382 - COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize Thu, 05 Nov 2020
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381 - A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl Thu, 29 Oct 2020
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380 - COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry and sense of smell and COVID Thu, 22 Oct 2020
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379 - Test and trace - how the UK compares to the rest of the world; Linda Scott's book The Double X Economy Thu, 15 Oct 2020
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378 - 08/10/2020 Thu, 08 Oct 2020
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377 - Brian May's Cosmic Clouds 3-D; How fish move between waterbodies and Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics Thu, 01 Oct 2020
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376 - Royal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum mystery object Thu, 24 Sep 2020
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375 - COVID-19 in Winter, Acoustics of Stonehenge and Dog years Thu, 17 Sep 2020
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374 - Coronavirus: The types of vaccine; How the UK is scaling up vaccine production Thu, 10 Sep 2020
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373 - Bird and dinosaur skull evolution; the wonders of yeast and Science Museum mystery object Thu, 03 Sep 2020
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372 - What does the science say about the COVID risks of schools reopening? Dolphin ear autopsy Thu, 27 Aug 2020
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371 - Smart bricks, The Royal Academy of Engineering awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting SARS-Cov-2 in sewage Thu, 20 Aug 2020
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370 - Land use and zoonoses, California's earthquake risk and the Tuatara genome Thu, 13 Aug 2020
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368 - Science Museum mystery objects; home security camera security and Rosalind Franklin at 100 Thu, 30 Jul 2020
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367 - Pre-prints over peer review during the COVID pandemic and roads and birds Thu, 23 Jul 2020
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366 - Science Fraud & Bias, Immunity to COVID-19 Thu, 16 Jul 2020
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365 - Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web and Neolithic genomics Thu, 09 Jul 2020
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364 - Preventing pandemics, invading alien species, blood types & COVID-19. Thu, 02 Jul 2020
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363 - The Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary Thu, 25 Jun 2020
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362 - Coronavirus conspiracy, Listeners' mask questions, Solar Orbiter gets close to the Sun Thu, 18 Jun 2020
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361 - Engineering out of lockdown and should we castrate male dogs? Thu, 11 Jun 2020
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360 - Back to School and Covid-19 and Ordnance Survey and the pandemic Thu, 04 Jun 2020
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359 - Testing & Tracing the coronavirus, and the traces our movements leave behind Thu, 28 May 2020
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358 - Coronavirus-free science, the impact of lockdown on climate change and the odds of both life and intelligent life existing. Thu, 21 May 2020
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357 - Coronavirus R number, genome study of Covid-19 survivors and using aircraft messages to assess aviation Thu, 14 May 2020
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352 - Testing for asymptomatic coronavirus carriers, Human Cell Atlas, and invasive parakeets Thu, 09 Apr 2020
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351 - Coronavirus: Models & being ‘led by the science’; Mars500 isolation tips; Kids’ science - singing glasses Thu, 02 Apr 2020
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349 - TB vaccination to replace culling in badgers; Neil Shubin on the wonders of evolution Thu, 19 Mar 2020
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348 - Biology of the new coronavirus Thu, 12 Mar 2020
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347 - Banning lead shot for hunting; UK Fireball Network and Extremely thin gold Thu, 05 Mar 2020
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346 - The Big Compost Experiment; Using AI to screen for new antibiotics; Science of slapstick Thu, 27 Feb 2020
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345 - Coronavirus questions; HMS Challenger and ocean acidification; Sean Carroll's quantum world Thu, 20 Feb 2020
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343 - Solar Orbiter launch; Mutational signatures in cancer; paleo-oncology Thu, 06 Feb 2020