Rowan Hooper

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1,427 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · The Mystery of Childbirth Is Finally Being Unravelled · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

And so also humans walk on two legs and sheep and mice walk on four. voice-verified

So we're going to get into that, voice-verified

whole aspect of it. voice-verified

But this new research then suggests that in humans, it's the immune system that activates labour. voice-verified

And that seems so surprising, isn't it, for the immune system to be involved in this process? voice-verified

What led people to suspect it was, Alice? voice-verified

can be a dangerous thing to do, to bring immune systems into a place where there's a foreign body, right? voice-verified

The baby, you know, is made of foreign tissue. voice-verified

And so, you know, in some ways you could look at the fetus as a parasite, right, that the immune system might want to attack it. voice-verified

So why are these white blood cells, like, okay, there is that risk, but why, so why are they swarming into the uterus there? voice-verified

What are they up to? voice-verified

I think this is absolutely amazing. voice-verified

So I knew that you could get these microtubules. voice-verified

I had no idea that the body could... voice-verified

shuttle mitochondria through and they call it like I saw some of the pictures as well like a little gondola going along they call it a gondola carrying the mitochondria across the tubules you know I always thought mitochondria were like completely just embedded in their host cell but now we're looking at them like like voice-verified

You can herd them through like voice-verified

a boost. voice-verified

That's amazing. voice-verified

And so, I mean, given what we know about mitochondria giving energy, I can guess why the body wants to put them into the uterus muscle. voice-verified

I will direct listeners to that podcast you did about your husband's adventures as a flying doctor. voice-verified

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