Episode 16: December 2014

Chapters

1. 0:39

   Repeat performances

   The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology will replicate selected experiments from 50 high-impact papers in preclinical cancer biology research.
2. 7:04

   The one and only

   It may be possible to use one drug, rather than several, to tackle viral infections.
3. 12:15

   Off the wall

   Some bacteria can survive and thrive despite not having a cell wall.
4. 18:02

   Spreading far and wide

   The genes responsible for antibiotics can spread between all three of the domains of life.
5. 23:00

   Fatal attraction

   A beetle pheromone that lures nematode worms to an insect host can also stop their development or even kill them outright.
6. 27:57

   Niche work

   When an epithelial stem cell divides, why does one of the new cells remain a stem cell while the other becomes a specialised cell?