Einstein a Go Go

Guest 1 - Professor Andrew Hill

Andrew focuses on neurodegenerative diseases caused by protein misfolding and aggregation, in particular Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). His group at the Bio21 institute are interested in dissecting the pathways involved in the conversion of the normal cellular form of proteins to abnormal, disease associated proteins.

Other segments:
-maintenance robots in space
-antibiotic-resistant bacteria
-parthenogenesis in sharks
-swine flu and cockroaches

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Direct podcast download: Einstein-A-Go-Go-20100502.mp3

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