Insect extinctions, and AI shot in the arm for drug design
This episode explores invertebrate extinctions in Australia, AI's impact on drug discovery, microplastic measurement, and climate tipping points affecting the drinking water industry.
3 Apr 2025
What climate change does to kelp forests
In this episode, how climate change impacts kelp forests, selecting for less animal-friendly variants, refining AI models for better water infrastructure design, classifying extinct marine megafauna and when best to swim with them, the coast consequences of climate change, and why a better understanding of the planet's drylands is critical... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
24 Dec 2024
Personalised medicine, droughts, and dryland research
Personalised medicine and gene screens for disease, why dinosaurs disappeared, planning for droughts, and new vistas in the drylands arena... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
25 Oct 2024
Future cancer care, and the cost of large animal extinction
In this episode, why approaches to cancer care need a pro-active approach in future, the opportunities arising for the cancer vaccine space, competency-based medical training, the environmental costs of losing large animals, and why water resilience needs careful planning now... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
31 Jul 2024
Microbiomes control blood pressure, and the cost of water
This month, evidence that the microbiome is controlling blood pressure - so will we treat hypertension with probiotics in future? Also, plastic is everywhere and an urgent environmental threat, but is the public aware, or do they care? We also consider the economics of animal extinction and species conservation, the price we pay for water, and the role of the "blue carbon" in keeping CO2 in check... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
14 Feb 2024
Making waves about coastline conservation, and plastic waste
This month the connections that human inhabitants have to the coast, why we're still in the middle of a worsening extinction crisis despite international laws and treaties designed to protect nature, the promise of pharmacogenomics and personalised medicine, the plastic pollution problem and how to tackle it, and why water management in the face of a changing climate needs more than just a single solution. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
30 Nov 2023
Plant mass extinctions, and getting mental health help
In this episode, delivering mental health help in the community, what seabirds can reveal about ocean plastic pollution, how plants are affected by mass extinction events, involving indigenous people in plastic pollution govenance, and why fieldwork can be a problem for some coastal scientists... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
10 Nov 2023
Recycled plastics pollute food, and the value of water
Better awareness of the precious resource that is water, getting a grip on coastal ecosystems and the impact of pollution, why recycled plastics are a threat for food packaging and kitchen utensils, how we can help humans to step up in extreme environments, and the opportunity offered by "lived experience" when it comes to mental health all go under the microscope in this episode of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
20 Oct 2023
Wildlife Trade Extinctions and 21st Century Psychology
This time we hear how many species are being driven to extinction by human trade, why clinical psychology needs an update for the 21st Century, how non-specialists can help to plug the gap in mental health services, what art can do for science and conservation of coastal habitats, and the role of epigenetics in medicine... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
30 Sept 2023
Newborn Genomics and Mass Extinctions
This is the launch episode of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast series, showcasing cutting-edge science from Cambridge University Press. In this edition, Chris Smith asks if we should be sequencing the genetic code of every human newborn, if we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, how to conserve a species we know nearly nothing about. Plus we talk about blue justice: how marginalised coastal communities can fight back... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/prisms)
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