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UnavailableBabbage: Dragon’s blood medicine
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Babbage: Dragon’s blood medicine

FromBabbage from The Economist


Currently unavailable

Babbage: Dragon’s blood medicine

FromBabbage from The Economist

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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Komodo dragon blood contains compounds that help combat human diseases. So can lizards help in the battle against antibiotic-resistant infections? Also: switch the power off and a microprocessor forgets everything but now there’s a way to give it a permanent memory. And did life on earth really begin 3,770 million years ago? Kenneth Cukier hosts For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Mar 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode