Rising melanoma rates, and artificial bird's eggs

About this episode

This episode discusses rising melanoma rates in the UK, epigenetic changes from pregnancy, the creation of artificial bird eggs, and coffee composition analysis.

In today's episode, the rising rates of melanoma skin cancer in the UK - why is this happening? Also, evidence that pregnancy induces epigenetic changes to brain gene expression, researchers produce the world's first artificial bird egg to bring back the Dodo, and an electrical technique to discover the composition of the best coffee... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

People in this episode

Host: The Naked Scientists

Topics covered

• melanoma
• epigenetics
• artificial eggs
• Dodo
• coffee

Keywords

• melanoma
• skin cancer
• epigenetics
• artificial bird egg
• Dodo
• coffee

Mentioned in this episode

Products: artificial bird egg

Places: UK, Dodo

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