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• 2008

• July 2008 to current broadcast

  • • February 2009:

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      This month it's all about the brain: Yoshiki Sasai's recipe for growing brain tissue from stem cells, how our early life experiences shape the wiring of our brain's visual centre, and the RIKEN researchers that used brain cells to clone mice frozen for over a decade.

    • December 2008:

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      Join us on a trip to the English countryside to see how RIKEN researchers are using beams of muons to probe the micro-structure of materials. Also in this show, sex cell determination and the unusual wave-bending properties of metamaterials.

    • November 2008:

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      This month, a new kind of microscope that could bring colour to the nanoworld and the latest research from RIKEN's Plant Science Centre: we find out how masses of new data on protein phosphorylation could help improve plant immunity, and why bigger is often better when it comes to cell size in plants.

    • October 2008:

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      This month, join us as we delve into the learning and memory centre of the brain, look towards new treatments for metabolic syndrome and meet the researchers who are figuring out the origin of superconductivity.

    • September 2008:

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      In this show, Charlotte Stoddart finds out about a radical new approach to blood transfusions, gets to grips with the genetics of lower-back pain and discovers how research into plant toxins could help scientists design better anti-cancer drugs.

    • August 2008:

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      In this show, Charlotte Stoddart visits a giant X-ray beaming machine in the English countryside, looks into some rubbery reactions and finds out what tool-using rodents could teach us about our own evolution.

    • July 2008:

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      In this show, Charlotte Stoddart finds out about a new chemical reaction that makes fine-tuning molecules for drugs and plastics much easier, unravels the genome of a small but important plant, and talks to the RIKEN researcher who's recreated a form of quark matter that existed just moments after the Big Bang.