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Over fifteen years ago Dr Julia Horsfield was working on a way to disrupt the defensive coat of HIV, the AIDS virus. Her approach is only now bearing fruit. She describes how much patience, commitment and even passion are needed to make science work. She has long been outspoken about the need for proper funding for research in New Zealand where she lives.

The quiet hero of snoring therapy has just received a Clunies Ross Award, yet another recognition for physiologist Professor Colin Sullivan of Sydney University. His work began over thirty years ago and has led to a global, multibillion dollar industry based on masks directing airflows over the user's face. But is it true that apnoea, when people stop breathing as they snore, is behind most of today's vascular disease? And what next in this immensely important research?

In today's podcast Dr. Preet Chopra talks about psychedelic psychotherapy in his grand rounds at a California hospital. Besides bringing us up to date on the psilocybin research project he is involved in, Dr. Chopra gives us some idea of the direction psychotherapy is taking in regards to psychedelic medicines.

Documents the development of the Medical Arts Research Center in San Antonio, Tx.

Women Needed for Medical Trials

New method of transplanting livers Presently, livers are kept on ice during transplant. They can last like that for up to 15 hours. A new method involves connecting the liver to apparatus to keep it operating outside the body. This extends its life after removal from the donor to 72 hours. This would increase the number of livers available by up to 100 per cent. Hepatitis B - a call for wider screening The average person with hepatitis B in Australia is not a drug addict, but a pregnant woman in her mid-20s, born in south-east Asia. Antenatal screening currently identifies these women, but Sally Holden argues for screening beyond this group, for the wider community. Academy calls for increased funding for research and innovation Academy President Kurt Lambeck presents a summary of the Australian Academy of Science´s 2007 policy statement on research and innovation. Searching for a new principle of physics The models for matter and antimatter don't explain what's seen in the universe. Martin Sevior thinks this may be explained by a new principle of physics. He describes some of his experiments currently in Japan and those planned for CERN in 2008. CERN and the large hadron collider CERN is the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva. CERN´s flagship project is the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. It consists of a tube, 27Km in circumference lying underneath France and Switzerland. Bunches of protons are accelerated in the pipe, travelling at 10,000 laps per second at just under the speed of light and just over absolute zero Kelvin. By slamming bunches of protons into each other at such high speeds, vast amounts of energy is released. It is thought the collisions will simulate conditions just after the Big Bang. New matter will be created and Einstien´s theory linking energy and mass should be demonstrated. Ionisation chemicals in the atmosphere Craig Rodgers studies lightning. But his equipment has been used for other purposes, including the study of the upper atmosphere. Most measurement are made between 50 and 85Km. Craig Rodgers is studying the production of new ionisation chemicals. They occur following explosions on the sun. These chemicals react with the Earth´s protective ozone layer.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews, Ms. Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers published by Norton. photo credit: Phyllis Christopher Journalist and former Salon com. columnist Mary Roach has written for Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She writes the humor column My Planet in Reader's Digest and is contributing editor for the science magazine Discover. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Ed. Visit her website.

05 Oct: Insect eyes, jupiter-sized exoplanets, a pub guide to zoology, string theory nonsense, eco-activists, climate change regulation, the sinking sea floor, and a quantum leap for teleportation.

28 Sept: Bacterial resurrection, tarantulas' silky feet, making stem cells, statistical shenanigans, climate change storm, solid Bose-Einstein condensation, evolutionary pathways, and science in Iran.

21 Sept: Hominid special: Lucy's baby, the roots of obesity, Libyan HIV case, the first 'PASER', Greenland's GRACE, fair skin signals, and sensing shadows.

14 Sept: European Neanderthals, evidence against solar warming, vegetative consciousness, quantum cooling, early galactic development.

Sound Medicine intern Meghan Freeman reports on the seventh annual Molecular Medicine in Action Program at the IU School of Medicine...

7 Sept: Cancer and unintelligent design, methane emissions, self-heating volcanoes, chiral-selective catalysts, fluid dynamics, and the story of Atlantis.

31 August: Male infertility, categorising visual information, SMART-1's last hurrah, size and the death of a star, gamma-ray bursts, and RNAi and indefinite inheritance.

24 Aug: Ethically-acceptable stem cells, targeted bacterial secretion, radio magnetars, Science Foo and citizen science, superheavy elements, Earth's archaic oxygen, and Dictyostelium keeps it in the family.

Bird flu's structural secrets and silent spread, plants and methane, Florida seeks Californian brains, cryptic Martian spots explained, galactic evolution, rewriting the nitrogen cycle, and fast-evolving brain genes.

Aqua-rice, plants inherit parents' stress, AIDS drugs for Africa, the ethics of egg donation, cosmological conundrums of lithium, and objects at the edge of the Solar System.

Warmth-seeking bees, smart microlenses, Conservation through molecular markers, whale aging, Poincare prooved (unpickled) , human pheromones, evolving beak morphology, dwarf survives giant, or, astronomical David and Goliath

Hepatitis C targets, acid-loving bacteria, personal carbon credits, Nigeria's good fortune, stem cell votes, electric healing, facing a face, the weather on Titan, and median fins and limbs.

Untangling foodwebs, our Neanderthal heritage, lungfish dammed, military secrets, graphene hits the scene, the origin of the ocean floor, and paramutational phenomena.

Brain-computer interfaces, science and the battle of the sexes, human transmission of H5N1, science and religion, deep sea secrets, the unshelled mollusc, tropospheric radicals, and atomic tweasers.

Face recognition, koala retroviruses, a sneaky sociologist, top science blogs, big cat business, new nukes, the search for Earth-like planets, and silent earthquakes.

Stem cell special: A one-off hour long edition of the Nature podcast featuring debate, insight and interviews on the latest stem cell research.

Self-repairing brains, black holes, science on the summer solstice, ecosystem stability, choosing the right cleaner fish, the new germanium, and the problem with prions. diseases.

The origins of the thymus, genetic causes of deafness, the piezo electric effect, and the precarious San Andreas fault.

Climate and contrails, repulsive atoms, trials of Nature, science and soccer, making species, gamblers' choices, and a new kind of glass.

Earthquake aftershocks, planetary origins, controversy at CSIRO, Stellar seal lions, signs of ancient life, and dwarf dinosaurs.