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BBC Inside Science: Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves

06/05/2021

Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves

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Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves.

Earliest human burial is found in Kenya; a warship provides clues about diversity in Tudor England; a promising malaria vaccine; and targeting rogue brain waves to treat tremors.

Despite being home to our early ancestors, attempts to find evidence of early burials in Africa have proved unsuccessful. That is until now. Professor María Martinón-Torres explains how findings from a 78,000-year-old Kenyan grave shed light on how our ancestors related to the dead. 

In keeping with the theme of clues from the past, Cardiff University academics have been studying the remains of crew who drowned on King Henry VIII’s favourite ship, the Mary Rose. As it turns out, Tudor England was more ethnically diverse than we previously thought.  

Victoria Gill speaks with University of Oxford researcher Dr Mehreen Datoo about a promising new malaria vaccine which was shown to be 77% effective in early trials. And Dr Nir Grossman, explains how his team at Imperial College London has been synchronising electrical pulses with rogue brain waves to treat tremors.

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