SoT 128: Plants on the Moon
Dec 13, 2013•36 min
Episode description
Jo Benhamu joins us to talk about a new trial she's conducting to improve radiotherapy for prostate cancer.
More progress resurrecting the extinct gastric brooding frog.
Scientists in Spain have received funding to test whether an extinct mountain goat can be cloned from preserved cells.
The temperature of the lab could potentially skew results of mice-studies. The mouse immune system is stronger at warmer temperatures than most labs are kept at.
NASA has plans to send plants to the moon, to grow in a 3D printed miniature greenhouse.
We pay tribute to Frederick Sanger, a two-time Nobel Prize winner and the 'father of genomics'.
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