April 2014: Future Medicine




R.Science podcast show

Summary: This month's episode of the podcast is all about the future of health and medicine. It's packed with interviews with researchers working on fascinating things, including computers that might help people to see, personalized medicine and the search for novel antibiotics. 0:45 Where and how can we find novel antibiotics? – Dr Christophe Corre 2:16 Stem cells and human health - Professor Fiona Watt FRS 4:57 Staphylococcus aureus – biography of a bug sometimes super, most often not - Professor Hugh Pennington CBE 19:09 Can computers help people see? – Dr Stephen Hicks 27:03 Why Science? – Dr Stephen Hicks Listen to this episode