Extra: The role of mitochondria in why we need sleep
Guest: Gero Miesenböck of Oxford University
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What determines the birth sex of a child?
Guests:Siwen Wang, Harvard UniversityDr Ruth Freeman, Research IrelandDr Susan Kelleher, DCU
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Extra: Why newborns feel pain differently to adults
Guest: Professor Lorenzo Fabrizi, Professor of Developmental Systems Neuroscience at University College London
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Biggest human imaging study completes scan of 100,000 people
Guests:Kevin O'Sullivan of The Irish TimesCatherine McGuinness, Science CommunicatorProfessor Naomi Allen, Chief Scientist at UK Biobank and Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Oxford
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Extra: Diabetes - could there be a cure?
Guest: Dr Simon Piggott, Clinical Research Fellow with the Diabetes Complications Research Centre at the Conway Institute, UCD
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