SoT 296: Classic Neanderthal Styling
Channel: Science on Top
Date: 22/05/2018

SoT 296: Classic Neanderthal Styling
http://scienceontop.com/296

Harvard researchers have systematically profiled every cell in developing zebrafish and frog embryos, showing how one cell develops into an entire organism.
81-year-old James Harrison has saved millions of babies. His weekly blood donations have been used to create a treatment to protect unborn babies from the deadly Rhesus D Haemolytic Disease (HDN).
Experts from around the wold have signed a letter to the World Health Organisation calling for more action to fight the cancer-causing retrovirus HTLV-1.
Ancient tools found on Mediterranean islands could suggest that Neanderthals had at least rudimentary seafaring skills.

This episode contains traces of US congressman Mo Brooks grilling climate scientist Dr. Philip Duffy before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee about the causes of sea level rise.

http://scienceontop.com/296

Chapters:
00:00:26 
00:01:06 Dr. Carolyn de Graaf 
00:11:15 Genetic roadmap to building an entire organism from a single cell https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180426141459.htm
00:15:28 Final donation for man whose blood helped save 2.4 million babies https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/final-donation-for-man-whose-blood-helped-save-2-4-million-babies-20180511-p4zerp.html
00:23:16 Time to eradicate HTLV-1, World Health Organisation is warned https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/11/time-to-eradicate-htlv-1-world-health-organisation-is-warned
00:29:36 Archaeologist Makes a Case for Seafaring Neandertals https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/archaeologist-makes-a-case-for-seafaring-neandertals/
00:34:24