Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast
Hosted by Dr Chris Smith · The Naked Scientists
4.5from 40 ratings
- 991
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 40
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
- 4M
- YouTube views
About Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast
Probing the weird, wacky and spectacular, the Naked Scientists Special Editions are special one-off scientific reports, investigations and interviews on cutting-edge topics by the Naked Scientists team.
- Publisher
- The Naked Scientists
- Category
- health & fitness · science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Sept 2006
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 991 episodes have a transcript.
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Could groundbreaking vaccine help eliminate malaria?
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What does it take to power an autonomous vehicle?
27 Jul 2026
Gorilla sperm, and subversive gambling machines
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Could groundbreaking vaccine help eliminate malaria?
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Do you think that this gives us the tool to do it? Or is this going to be a useful stepping stone, but there's still loads of work to be done to get an even higher efficacy? I don't think anybody really believes that one intervention is going to eliminate malaria, even if you had a really good one. So thinking about vaccines, we've got a vaccine that's pretty good against this one stage of the life cycle, the sporozoite or the coat protein vaccine. There are also vaccines in clinical trials showing some efficacy against the blood stage and vaccines that, very interestingly, don't protect you against malaria, but they protect you from infecting somebody else. […]
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- 4,105,177
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 40 ratings
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- 85
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 51
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