Nick Petridge: For people who study sleep and dreaming, lucid dreaming is of a lot of interest. But trying to study that from like me telling you what i dreamt about after i've woken up, is somewhat limited. charmine bunda: It's another insight into actually being able to study how dreaming works. nick petridge: I think that's probably all we've got time for for the briefing this week. We're at nature podcast.
The surprising structure of protons, and a method for growing small intestines for transplantation.
In this episode:
00:45 Probing the proton’s interior
Although studied for decades, the internal structure of the proton is still throwing up surprises for physicists. This week, a team of researchers report an unexpected imbalance in the antimatter particles that make up the proton.
Short Bowel Syndrome is an often fatal condition that results from the removal of the small intestine. Treatment options are limited to transplantation, but donor intestines are hard to come by and can be rejected by the body. Now researchers may have developed a method to grow a replacement small intestine using stem cells and a small section of colon.