Diffusion Science radio

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Live bodiless brains by Ian Woolf,
Toby Hendy talks about the physics of poked plants,
Samira Aili talks about using ant venom to save the world,
Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

Toby Hendy at Famelab
Tibees - Toby Hendy on YouTube
Toby Hendy on Twitter

Samira Aili in the lab with a mass spectrometer
Samira Aili on Twitter
Spider Man and Ant Woman

Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body
The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue

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Memory prosthetic by Ian Woolf,
Brain Computer Interfaces for augmentation by Avinash Singh.
Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

UTS Computational Intelligence and Brain Computer Interface Centre
Avinash Singh

Developing a hippocampal neural prosthetic to facilitate human memory encoding and recall
Prosthetic Memory System Successful in Humans, Study Finds
Memory Chip Implant Created to Help Human Brain Remember

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Akane Tanaka finds new treatments for auto-immune disorders by studying how parasites hack our immune system,
Quian Wu uses computer vision and machine learning to find your clothing size, and also to track livestock,
Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

Akane Tanaka

Quian Wu

CeBIT Australia

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Hangover cure by Ian Woolf,
Michael Widjaja talks about bacteria using cleavage,
Kate Wilson talks about building the virtual Penrith Observatory.
Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

Michael Widjaja
Cleaving to survive: the complex life of pathogenic bacteria

Kate Wilson

A Hepatocyte‐Mimicking Antidote for Alcohol Intoxication
A hangover pill? Tests on drunk mice show promise