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Today's Titan is former chair of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and a key figure in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine which rolled out during the Covid pandemic. Andrew Pollard tells Chris Smith how vaccines work, how public health bodies decide what to protect us against, and how current technology will shape the future of immunisation... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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1150 - Titans of Science: Andrew Pollard Tue, 29 Apr 2025
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1149 - Malaria fight in jeopardy, and bone collecting caterpillars Fri, 25 Apr 2025
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1148 - Titans of Science: Sara Russell Tue, 22 Apr 2025
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1147 - Martian carbon cycles, and magnetic flip fried Neanderthals Fri, 18 Apr 2025
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1146 - Titans of Science: Richard Thompson Tue, 15 Apr 2025
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1145 - Womb transplant baby, and ancient seafarers Fri, 11 Apr 2025
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1144 - Why are measles cases surging? Tue, 08 Apr 2025
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1143 - Antibiotics affect babies' vaccinations, and space miso Fri, 04 Apr 2025
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1142 - How bad is the air we breathe? Tue, 01 Apr 2025
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1141 - Pig liver transplant breakthrough, and weird early galaxies Fri, 28 Mar 2025
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1140 - AMR unleashed: the silent pandemic Tue, 25 Mar 2025
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1139 - Stranded astronauts return, and the whale pee funnel Fri, 21 Mar 2025
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1138 - The mounting misgivings over microplastics Tue, 18 Mar 2025
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1137 - North Sea ship crash, and super spuds Fri, 14 Mar 2025
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1136 - CRISPR, and the ethics of gene editing Tue, 11 Mar 2025
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1135 - New part of the immune system, and greedier labradors Fri, 07 Mar 2025
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1134 - Incoming: what happens when the next asteroid hits Earth? Tue, 04 Mar 2025
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1133 - Glucose monitor misinformation, and AI dairy farms Fri, 28 Feb 2025
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1132 - What is mirror life? Tue, 25 Feb 2025
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1131 - Game-changing prostate cancer test, and magnetic turtles Fri, 21 Feb 2025
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1130 - Halting the progress of multiple sclerosis Tue, 18 Feb 2025
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1129 - Record-breaking neutrinos, and quantum train travel Fri, 14 Feb 2025
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1128 - From Russia with Love: The Science of Hybrid Warfare Tue, 11 Feb 2025
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1127 - Mantis shrimp's punch, and low-methane rice Fri, 07 Feb 2025
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1126 - Can you grow a building? Tue, 04 Feb 2025
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1125 - Asteroid Bennu's brine, and DeepSeek shocks Silicon Valley Fri, 31 Jan 2025
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1124 - Titans of Science: Charlie Swanton Tue, 28 Jan 2025
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1123 - Malaria infection trial, and weeing chimpanzees Fri, 24 Jan 2025
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1122 - Science of Scotch: How whisky is made Tue, 21 Jan 2025
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1121 - 5 years of COVID, and the hunt for Planet X Fri, 17 Jan 2025
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1120 - Titans of Science: Antje Boetius Tue, 14 Jan 2025
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1119 - Bird flu threat, and what the Romans really did for us Fri, 10 Jan 2025
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1118 - Titans of Science: Trevor Robbins Tue, 07 Jan 2025
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1117 - What science will thrive in 2025? Fri, 03 Jan 2025
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1116 - Titans of Science: Marc Abrahams Tue, 31 Dec 2024
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1115 - The science that defined 2024 Fri, 27 Dec 2024
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1114 - The best of 2024! Fri, 20 Dec 2024
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1113 - Titans of Science: David Baker Tue, 17 Dec 2024
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1112 - Food science, ancient human genes, and dark comets Fri, 13 Dec 2024
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1111 - Titans of Science: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Tue, 10 Dec 2024
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1110 - AI takes weather forecasting by storm, and crabs use aspirin Fri, 06 Dec 2024
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1109 - OCD and balance in the brain Tue, 03 Dec 2024
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1108 - Jab to alleviate asthma attacks, and amber in Antarctica Fri, 29 Nov 2024
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1107 - Can nuclear innovation help meet our energy needs? Tue, 26 Nov 2024
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1106 - Amazing animals: bats on treadmills, and showering elephants Fri, 22 Nov 2024
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1105 - Are we on track to end new infections of HIV? Tue, 19 Nov 2024
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1104 - The stakes at COP29, and the rogue Skynet satellite Fri, 15 Nov 2024
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1103 - Can weight loss jabs tackle the obesity pandemic? Tue, 12 Nov 2024
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1102 - Pompeii DNA, and a black hole feeding faster than it should Fri, 08 Nov 2024
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1101 - How do we reduce harms to children from smartphones? Tue, 05 Nov 2024
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