Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Dr. Mick Vagg.
Topics covered:
- 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”
- 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”
- 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka “for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”
- Super-Toxic Snake Venom Could Yield New Painkillers
- Stumped by bed nets, mosquitoes turn midnight snack into breakfast

Black mamba in defensive posture, photo taken by Bill Love, Blue Chameleon Ventures. Via WikiCommons.
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