Jul 7

Tooth and Claw: Killer Whales

Investigating the black-and-white apex predator of the sea – the killer whale! Able to predate even great white sharks, this marine mammal is the largest member of the dolphin family. From tropical seas, to the Arctic and Antarctic, killer whales (or orcas) are found across the w ... Show More

26m 28s

Jun 30

The Life Scientific - Tim Peake

What's it like living underwater for two weeks? What's the trickiest part of training to be an astronaut? What are the most memorable sights you see from space? Several extreme questions, all of which can be answered by one man: Major Tim Peake. After a childhood packed with outd ... Show More

26m 29s

Jun 3

How does heat affect our health?

What effect will warming temperatures have on health? One place to look for answers is Bulgaria. In the summer of 2023, Bulgaria experienced numerous heatwaves, leading to the country experiencing one of the highest rates of heat mortality in Europe. But how are these numbers cal ... Show More

49m 27s

Mar 2024

The Evolution Of Cancer Treatment

Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind cancer therapy to treat aggresive forms of skin cancer. It has us thinking of the long history of cancer. One of the first recorded mentions of cancer appears in an ancient Egyptian text from around 3000 B ... Show More

13m 58s

Sep 2023

Why does cancer spread to the spine? Newly discovered stem cells might be the key

In this episode:00:45 A new insight into cancers' selective spreadCancer cells can spread to bones in the late stages of disease and in many cancers, cells actually preferentially metastasise to the spine. The reason for this has been a puzzle to researchers for years, but now a ... Show More

23m 42s

Feb 2023

CRISPR & bioethics

In the decade since the genome editing capabilities of CRISPR-Cas9 emerged, research into novel medicines has boomed – but alongside progress comes new ethical considerations. Controversy erupted in 2018, when Chinese scientist He Jiankui created the first babies with edited geno ... Show More

55m 17s

Feb 2024

Why we need to rethink how we talk about cancer

For over a century, cancer has been classified by areas of the body - lung cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer etc. And yet modern medical research is telling us that the molecular and genetic mechanisms behind cancers are not necessarily tied to parts of the body. Many drugs deve ... Show More

14m 53s

Aug 2023

Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)

The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as 1913. Pink ribbons have been ubiquitous symbols of breast cancer awareness and fund-raising promotions since the mid-1980s, but “canc ... Show More

52m 17s

Sep 2019

A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer | Carl June

Carl June is the pioneer behind CAR T-cell therapy: a groundbreaking cancer treatment that supercharges part of a patient's own immune system to attack and kill tumors. In a talk about a breakthrough, he shares how three decades of research culminated in a therapy that's eradicat ... Show More

15m 11s

Jun 2024

A quand remonte le premier traitement contre le cancer ?

Plusieurs millénaires avant notre ère, la médecine égyptienne était déjà élaborée. Les chercheurs ont en effet à leur disposition de nombreux papyrus, qui détaillent les pratiques médicales des praticiens égyptiens. On sait ainsi qu'ils savaient poser des prothèses ou des plombag ... Show More

2m 3s

Mar 2024

India’s Breakthrough in Cancer Cure

Thejna John is a happy woman. Last year, the relapse of an acute form of blood cancer despite a bone marrow transplant, had made her doctors give up all hope. In October, came a breakthrough. India approved the CAR T-Cell therapy, a revolutionary treatment for some forms of cance ... Show More

30m 1s

Jan 2022

Journal Review in Surgical Oncology: Perioperative Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced, Resectable, Gastric Cancer

Chemotherapy or surgery first? What is the contemporary management for patients with locally advanced, resectable gastric cancer, and what does the data show? In this episode from the Surgical Oncology team at Behind the Knife, join the discussion on perioperative treatment of lo ... Show More

23m 54s

The Life Scientific: Bahija Jallal