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    Our Changing World for Thursday 17 March 2016

    • Previous Episode: Thursday, 10 March 2016
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    • Hairy elephants and transgenic aphids

      science
      Could new gene editing technologies help to bring extinct animals back?

      9:45 PM.University of Otago geneticists Peter Dearden and Neil Gemmell continue their discussion of the gene editing tool CRISPR and its use in genomics, conservation and de-extinction. Read more Audio

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    • Using light and electricity to study individual brain cells

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      Cross section of a rat brain, showing showing intense expression of endocannabinoid receptors (red) - particularly in regions with dopamine producing neurons (green) and associated with movement.

      9:34 PM.Optogenetics uses light to target individual cells, and Peter Freestone is using it to better understand Parkinson's disease and the role of endocannabinoids in how brain cells communicate. Read more Audio

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    • New Zealand's prehistoric polar forests

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      GNS Science palaeobotanist Liz Kennedy and expedition leader Chris Mays, from Monash University, with one of the large, fossil-bearing boulders from the Clarence Valley.

      9:20 PM.A team of Australian and New Zealand fossil hunters on a National Geographic expedition spent weeks scouring sites in Marlborough and on the Chatham Islands for remnants of prehistoric polar forests.

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    • CarpN Neutral - doing good things with bad koi carp

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      Koi carp

      9:06 PM.Introduced koi carp are a nuisance in lakes and rivers in the Waikato, and the CarpN Neutral project catches them and turns their bodies into fertiliser for use in native revegetation programmes. Read more Audio, Gallery

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      CarpN Neutral - doing good things with bad koi carp
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