Chemistry World Podcast

January 2007 

1.50: Heart cells used as pumps for labs on chips

4.10: The morning after pill could prevent breast cancer

6.10: Steve Scott from the University of Toronto explains how the very deep ocean could be mined for mineral treasure 

11.30: How a washing machine threw one regulatory agency into a nanotechnology spin 

14.50: Sue Ferns from Prospect, the union representing public sector sciences, tells us how an erosion of funding is threatening this area of research 

18.50: 'Friendly' bacteria help treat cancer 

21.30: Defra-commissioned organophosphate study gets a reprieve, but how much damage has been done by the delay. Lead researcher Sarah Mackenzie-Ross from University College London explains 25.50: Europe finally agrees on the most complicated piece of legislation regulating chemicals 

30.00: Derek Lowe tells the story of the worst clinical trial failure to hit the drug industry in many years: Pfizer's much anticipated torcetrapib 

34.00: Nanoparticles in exhaust fumes could be a previously overlooked health risk 

36.30: And finally, what made the first Christmas crackers go 'bang'?