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Will Biobots deliver our Medicine?

Introducing biobots – tiny molecular motors that may provide future medical solutions

10 Jan 2002,23 mins

Piglets are the latest Clones

Do two litters of cloned piglets bring the possibility of xenotransplantation closer?

04 Jan 2002,26 mins

How to prevent Antibiotic Resistance

Strategies to prevent the increase in antibiotic resistance

21 Dec 2001,26 mins

Answers to Listeners' Questions

Studio guests help answer your science questions

18 Dec 2001,26 mins

Keeping up with the Clones

Is cloning technology moving too fast for legislation to keep up?

14 Dec 2001,26 mins

What does it take to Win a Nobel Prize?

How does the Nobel Prize committee select the winners from so many outstanding candidates?

07 Dec 2001,26 mins

Human Cloning Report under Scrutiny

Debate over cloned human embryo article

30 Nov 2001,26 mins

Study finds Cloned Cows to be Normal

Study shows cloned cattled healthy and normal after four years

23 Nov 2001,26 mins

Will Bushmen get a share of Slimming Drug Profits?

South African Bushmen in negotiations to protect their ownership of indigenous knowledge

15 Nov 2001,26 mins

Will the Patriot Act be bad for American science?

Can America protect against bio-terrorism without harming science?

13 Nov 2001,26 mins

Why Drug Tests should be Colour Blind

Grouping subjects by genetic markers in drug trials is more accurate than skin colour

05 Nov 2001,26 mins

Will we Swallow 'Living Pills'?

Nanotechnology is being used to make "living pills" to treat diabetes

29 Oct 2001,26 mins

Dan Goldin bids farewell to Nasa

Dan Goldin, head of Nasa, has resigned

19 Oct 2001,26 mins

All at sea over CO2 Storage

"Burying" carbon dioxide on the sea floor to slow down global warming is a bad idea

12 Oct 2001,26 mins

The Geology of Super-cyclones

What rocks tell us about super-cyclones

05 Oct 2001,26 mins

Space Missions Accomplished

Nasa probes send reports back from a comet and an asteroid

28 Sep 2001,26 mins

America Mourns Victims of September 11

America mourns the thousands who died in the September 11 attacks

21 Sep 2001,26 mins

The collapse of the Twin Towers

It was fire from the aircraft impacts that caused the World Trade Center to collapse

14 Sep 2001,26 mins

Science Festival comes to Glasgow

Report from the annual science festival at Glasgow University

10 Sep 2001,26 mins

The Secret of Long Life?

Have scientists really identified genes associated with long life?

31 Aug 2001,26 mins

Earthquake warning for the Himalayan region

Warning of giant earthquakes for the Himalayan region

24 Aug 2001,26 mins

Another Planet only 50 Light Years away

Another planet orbiting the star 47 Ursae Majoris is only 50 light years away

18 Aug 2001,25 mins

The Super-healing Mouse

Lab mouse that can re-grow damaged heart tissue without drugs

10 Aug 2001,25 mins

A head-count for the next Century

What does a new world population prediction mean for the planet?

03 Aug 2001,26 mins

A Cloud over the Future of Cloning?

Scientists are concerned by abnormalities in cloned mice

23 Jul 2001,26 mins

The Temperature is Rising

Global warming could be about 3ºC over the next 100 years

19 Jul 2001,26 mins

Sharks' conventional Gender Roles

Female sharks stay in home waters, while males roam the world's oceans

12 Jul 2001,26 mins

How marine Ecosystems collapse

Tracing marine ecosystem collapses back hundreds and thousands of years

07 Jul 2001,26 mins

Sex and the False Spider Mite

The strange sexless life cycle of the false spider mite crop pest

29 Jun 2001,26 mins

How old is Malaria?

Working out how long malaria has been around in humans

25 Jun 2001,26 mins

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