Not Exactly Rocket Science
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In each episode, Duncan and Dominic talk to a medical researcher about what they do, and believe us, if we can understand this stuff then so can you.

Adam Zeman

Adam researches disorders of visual imagery, such as that exhibited by one of your hosts. We talked to him about understanding ourselves better, a for...
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Kate O'Donnell

Kate researches primary care, and she was kind enough to talk to us about what primary care is and how it’s changing, how much more NHS24 does now tha...
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Will Wood

Will researches repair & regeneration, and he chatted to us about wound signalling, cells that level up, genetic powerhouses and a death star for flie...
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Rachael Jack

Rachael works on understanding what people say without speaking, and she talked to us about cultural expressions, the “other race effect”, and how her...
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Lisa McDaid

Lisa is a social scientist at Glasgow, and she talked to us about how your community affects your health, poverty safari, and the difference that scie...
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Lynn Paterson

In a special Not Exactly Brain Surgery episode, biologists Philip and Clara talked to Lynn, a lecturer in physics at Heriot Watt. They talked about op...
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Poppy Lamberton

Poppy works in neglected tropical diseases, and she spoke to us about discrete choice experiments, worms that come out of snails, and how children can...
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Karen Faulds

Karen is working with nanoparticles to see cells in a new way, and she spoke to us about having to learn how to talk to medics, accidental discoveries...
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Gail McConnell

Gail is actually a physicist, and she talked to us about a lens as big as your arm, sending hard drives through the post, and the difficulty of advert...
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Elaine Dzierzak

Elaine is trying to make stem cells, and she was kind enough to talk to us about the importance of finding a question that drives you, tiny little mou...
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