Babbage: Dragon’s blood medicine

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Babbage: Dragon’s blood medicine
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:17:41
• Published: 2017-03-01 18:15

Komodo dragon blood contains compounds that help combat human diseases. So can lizards help in the battle against antibiotic-resistant infections? Also: switch the power off and a microprocessor forgets everything but now there’s a way to give it a permanent memory. And did life on earth really begin 3,770 million years ago? Kenneth Cukier hosts  

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