Ian Sample
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2,123 appearances
29 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Ian Sample’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And in this case...
A lot of that liquid that this thing is in is pulling the strings.
And also, I've got this little wind-up Easter chick, and you put it down and it kind of hops along.
But you wouldn't think it's nearly alive.
I'm winding up a mechanical thing and it is tootling along on its own.
It's very crudely mimicking something that you see in life.
That's sort of being a little bit harsh on spud cells.
Spud cells are using DNA.
They are doing things very differently to life, but they are doing things using biochemistry.
But for me, they are sort of nearer the toy side of things or the puppet side of things than they are
towards actual living cells.
But I asked Kate why she didn't consider these cells to be alive as well.
The reality of being a scientist in a lab is that you spend an awful long time with things going wrong, with checking things have worked the way you think, with staring down microscopes.
And so when something does happen,
It may not be a particularly clearly defined event that you can point back to and say it was, you know, 12.33 on a Friday.
I was in the lab and I saw it happen.
And that was the case here, that she was really struck by seeing these spud cells disappear.
But if you think about what happens with a living cell, E. coli divides in about 20 minutes.
These guys take about 12 hours.
So it's a very slow process.
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