Natasha Mitchell
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24,986 appearances
297 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Jul 2018
Natasha Mitchell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But if sight goes, a bionic eye could play a role.
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And certainly the eye is only one part of the equation.
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I mean it's really our brain that does the seeing for us.
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The eye is really just a vehicle to get the light signals somehow into our heads, isn't it?
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Patrick Degoner contemplating the Bionic Eye and since that show aired the Australian federal government in two thousand and nine.
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allocated forty two million dollars to the consortium Bionic Vision Australia.
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Over the years we've looked at various neural prostheses, brains that are part flesh, part machine.
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But in two thousand and six we took on the chimeric brain, part human, part nonhuman.
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Harvard researchers had transplanted neural stem cells from a human into the brain of a developing monkey to see how the potentially therapeutic cells might function in a living being.
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But this sort of research raises all sorts of ethical questions.
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This was at the time also when the cloning and stem cell debates were front and centre in Australia.
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Professor Peter Schofield there, a member of the Lockhart Committee charged with reviewing Australia's legislation on research involving human embryos and cloning.
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The big scientific challenge, though, is to study how embryonic and adult human stem cells behave, evolve, and differentiate into other cell types.
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And scientists need biological bodies.
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than humans to do the testing and thinking on.
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This is when non-human animals, like mice and monkeys, are used as living test tubes.
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With human cells engrafted into them, they become a chimera, a word with its origins in ancient Greece, to others a boogie monster of modern science.
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Jason Scott Robert is an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and their center.
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for biology and society.
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Jason, let's start with a lesson in mythological history.
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