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What's your blood type? In this episode we hear about blood from Dr Shane Grimsley, a Clinical Scientist in the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory at NHS Blood and Transplant. We talked on blood donation, blood types and hear more about specific work going on to try and improve blood matching for individuals living with Sickle Cell disorder, some of whom undergo routine blood transfusions as part of their care.

Blood Donation: https://www.blood.co.uk/

Sickle Cell Society: https://www.sicklecellsociety.org/

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Intro Music "Eternal Light" credits to: http://www.nihilore.com/

Outro Music "Escape From LV426" credits to: https://whitebataudio.com/

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Immunohistochemistry. What is that? In this episode recorded in May 2023, we asked Keeley Thwaites, a Clinical and Biomedical Scientist specialising in Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics. We also spoke about the Immunohistochemistry Network, a community Keeley built to help her community keep pace with rapidly developing science on genetic molecular testing landscape and to share their daily challenges and success on the road to delivering new healthcare science services.

The Immunohistochemistry network: https://www.theihcnetwork.com/

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Music credits to:

http://www.nihilore.com/

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In this pilot show we take a look at the healthcare science and technology going on in hospitals. In this first pilot episode I spoke to Aisling Haughey, a radiotherapy physicist at Altnagelvin Area Hospital in Northern Ireland. We spoke about how to plan radiotherapy treatments and how artificial intelligence tools could be used to make it faster and easier.

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http://www.nihilore.com/

https://www.kirkosamayo.com/

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