Tune in tomorrow at 9pm on 101FM for more great stories from Our Changing World - or you can listen online: just follow the links for each story below: PRINTING BODY PARTS Imagine printing biological material like a new knee or hip. Tim Woodfield and Ben Schon have a 3D bioprinter which they are developing to print tissue like cartilage, or bone, using a patient’s own cells to replace damaged tissue. The technology may one day be used in surgery, and Ruth Beran goes to the University of Otago, Christchurch to see the printer in action. rnz.to/1vZ8Srr NEW ZEALAND’S FUTURE SCIENCE LEADERS The late Sir Paul Callaghan wanted New Zealand to be ‘the most beautiful, stimulating, and exciting place in the world in which to live and work’. As part of an effort to encourage young scientists to be part of this vision, the annual Eureka awards celebrate young science orators, and Veronika Meduna meets some of them as they compete for the top prize. rnz.to/1wkP3Yo USING 1080 TO FIGHT PREDATORS AND SAVE NATIVE BIRDS Battle for our Birds is the largest-ever pest-control operation in New Zealand, and it’s using aerial drops of the toxin 1080 across 700,000 hectares of conservation land to protect native birds from a plague of rats, mice and stoats following mass seeding in beech forests. Alison Ballance heads to South Westland, to find out about a long-running research programme by the Department of Conservation investigating the effectiveness of 1080 treatment in protecting native birds. She also talks with Landcare Research toxicologist Penny Fisher, and joins a 1080 drop in the Tongariro Conservation Area designed to protect kiwi and whio populations. rnz.to/1wkPu57
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:21:37 +0000
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