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Babbage: Dragon’s blood medicine

Babbage from The Economist
Babbage from The Economist
Episode • Mar 1, 2017 • 17m
Komodo dragon blood contains compounds that help combat human diseases. So can lizards help in the battle against antibiotic-resistant infections? Also: switch the power off and a microprocessor forgets everything but now there’s a way to give it a permanent memory. And did life on earth really begin 3,770 million years ago? Kenneth Cukier hosts

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