Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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first heard May 2026
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And it's very labor intensive.
You know, you need that extra time to work with families to help answer their questions, have them understand that, in fact, these vaccines are good for them and for their children.
Well, the most important thing is building strong health systems.
The health system is where when a disease appears that's novel, it will be a health worker saying, I see something strange and reporting people.
So having good health systems is important.
But also, we deliver during COVID.
three times the number of vaccines that had ever been delivered before and you know it wasn't pretty it wasn't easy but the health workers were the heroes that did that and and building those systems to be stronger and better is the way to prepare for the future in addition to making sure there's adequate manufacturing there's good supply chains there's going to be money
And most importantly is we come back to science.
The reason we got vaccines in 327 days, the fastest vaccine before that was four years.
Today, we might even be able to do it in 100 days.
But the reason we could do that was because of a few decades of research.
on other coronaviruses on on sars on mares and so we knew how to make the spike protein we knew how to stabilize it we knew how to do that the work on mrna vaccines had gone on for decades before it got to the state that it was ready so funding science is absolutely critical to protecting us and and so you have people saying yeah we have to cut here we have to cut there because we need a little bit more defense money you know that is not a good trade-off here so this is the critical issue
The Life Scientific · Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers · 26 May 2026
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First on BBC Sounds.
Imagine being told as a teenager that you're not clever enough to make it as a scientist.
A paleontologist, to be more specific.
Then proving those voices wrong by discovering some of the largest prehistoric creatures to have ever roamed the seas.
No, this isn't some boy-done-good movie plot.
It's the true story of today's guest.
Dr Dean Lomax is now one of the world's leading experts on ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles that once ruled our prehistoric seas.
But his journey has been anything but conventional.
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