SoT 215: Yellow Big Head

February 27, 2016

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Jo Benhamu.

A brain parasite may make chimpanzees less cautious and fearful of leopards. Maybe.

For over 60 years, fruit flies have been trapped in the dark in one of the longest ongoing scientific experiments. 1,500 generations later, some evolutionary effects are being revealed.

A new technique of using modified cancer cells to fight cancer is showing some impressive results in mice, but it’s early days yet.

The Australian town of Wangaratta is being swamped by tumbleweeds. And it’s all one person’s fault.

Jo Benhamu is a clinical trials coordinator in radiation oncology.