Have something that has gone viral it just very excited there antibodies vertebrates including humans have antibodies as part of the adaptive immune system. When were infected with the sars kovi to virus certain cells called antigen presenting cells identify the pathogen and then take in and display some of its proteins on the surface. That activates t. Help and cells which trigger various immune responses. For instance sides are toxic t. Cells are deployed to kill infected cells. And spear lymphocytes are stimulated to produce antibodies which bind to the virus and prevent them from infecting further cells. And llamas they appear to have rather special kinds of antibodies. Dark eyes with. Lash is to die for a crooked pair of years and spindly legs this is winter shes just 4 years old but she already has plenty of confidence she knows shes got the stuff to save the world. And. The best the plan have to say she always put yourself forward its just her character. For me shes a diva an animal that makes it very clear that shes in charge especially when it comes to her food dont mess with me or. d d the young female llama was born in january 26th team hence the name winter. Researchers that get university in belgium took her blood for research they found what they had hoped to find specific antibodies. Secret that. In their blood is the underbody that they make they are simple in makeup more simple than antibodies you find in your will and those more simple and about it youd have powerful. Possibilities to can be very specific they can also for example block fires just for the efficiently. Together with his team of molecular biologists. And successfully managed to create a stable link between antibodies from mamas and humans theyre trying to prevent the human body from rejecting the cells the trick lies in the combination. So what the bodies do from the lama is they bind despite. In such a way that the virus can no longer. To find its receptor to dock on our cells but it can no longer do that in a way that its infectious so we prevent the virus from entering this way. For more than 30 years gazillions has been researching viruses that affect the respiratory tract since the beginning of the cold in 1000 pandemic hes had very little sleep and he spent a lot of time in the lab with his 15 member team. The difficult part is to from a tiny piece of block to the lama to take out the cells which can produce these special antibodies and select the ones which are very efficient in blocking the virus. Following the lab tests the scientists want to conduct preclinical studies on hamsters before the end of the year there could be a human test as a basis for a pharmaceutical what do you plan to do with our antibody from origin from the lama is to administer it so injected into people who are diagnosed with go with 19 so to prevent them from becoming sick or very sick. And also to try. To protect for a while in people who are exposed to the virus for example if the antibodies could be industrially produced in large quantities they could be used to ensure widespread passive immunity in the population. Or my collaborators and once my colleagues have been working pretty hard they were driven by of course the pressure and the demand from the society and the curiosity also because this new virus how can we tackle it is our hunter body from the army is it really that good you used some one of the dogs who have to prove every show when they get a mile. The results are promising in a best Case Scenario the mama drug could be available next year. Thats why winter is an absolute star among coronavirus researchers worldwide along a wondrous animal. Those from a long it takes the. Most important is that nature all creatures are shown respect. To learn to understand that nature can give us everything and winter is the best example of us that were made before. And if the medicine actually works there sure to be an extra portion of grass for winter. The best thing of course would be to avoid contact with the virus in the 1st place. Scientists now know that it can be carried by so called the results. The corona virus seems to duck onto these miniscule airborne particles its a danger thats unseen aerosols always smaller than human head one experiment carried out in germany makes the danger visible. In this broadcasters studio in munich this is dangerous sent for 2 experiments. And stefan conies baugus are investigating the droplets of more easter emitted from the mouth when a person sings they consist of large and small droplets the term aerosol is mainly used for the smaller ones both kinds can carry the coronavirus stefan conies lucas is going to take a look at the larger droplets. To make them visible the singers will exhale them into a laser light sheens. Lets just use a laser at even the least bit particular everything that passes through the plane of the laser shes every visible including droplets from the most scatters the light out of the laser beam high speed come up we could then use the high speed cameras weve set up perpendicular to the plane to capture and track the particles Movement Even in particular if you can feel for it now its time to investigate the smaller droplets the air assaults and they can be made visible when the person enhanced the carrier liquid from an insecure it and blows it out. The exhaled cloud is comprised of aerosol particles and is now invisible as much to us and demonstrates himself by singing oh out there and singing speaking even just breathing down. These 2 kinds of droplets when we talk the larger particles fall to the ground after about one and a half meters. But what about when we see. The much tinier particles behave differently there are so light that they turned up in the air stream the researchers wanted to know if and how they do this when were singing to. One of these particles go how do they spread out if i were infected what risk would i posed to the person next to me or indeed the audience those are the questions we want to answer here. The preparations for the experiments are now complete. That wont stand 10 professional choir singers are invited to take part in 10 different tests and 2 different test rooms. For. Each. Im amazed by how far these gases that have been inhaled spread across the room for tired this is the norm but singing after inhaling the liquid is not without its complications. Theres. A lot. Of it i can sing an entire phrase with that stuff. After a couple overheard its time for the main performance. Who comes off the. Maybe its because for all each of the black or white markings on the poles corresponds to 10 centimeters enabling the researchers to measure the spread of the aerosol cloud after 2 days of huffing and puffing the experiments are over and another 2 weeks later the scientists are busy analyzing the results so how far do aerosols fly when were singing as if its the cast you have cast and where we can see the droplets radiating away from her skin tones and what all the space the aerosol cloud spreads to would normally be filmed by other singers doesnt think thats. Something you talk about 6 percent because you know its something me and im good stuff up to one measure. On the phone and if we now take a look at nico. I see something 6060 centimeters in a lot of cases the emission was between one and one and a half meters. So for people singing in a choir a distance of one and a half meters is definitely to close. In bavaria choirs are currently require to maintain a distance of 2 meters a time limit on rehearsals and regular airing so what do the 2 scientists recommend. Im going to be really on the safe side you have to repeatedly remove the aerosols to avoid a buildup of particles every time you sing in the so continuous ventilation would be the best option to continue. With that and 2 or 2 and a half meters would be conceivable although that would be difficult for a lot of amateur choirs. They also analyze the side where dispersal of the aerosol cloud. Atlas and so from thats 50 or 60 centimeters far shorter than in the direction of singing. And dancing or standing in front of each other need to be further away than those side by side. Since the 2nd focus of the tests was to study the behavior of large droplets when singing consonants and vowels this search could. Be. For singers have to stress their consonants heavily in order for the audience to understand the words. 0 if i articulate very clearly as you do on stage like with freud good to have my particles might be flung further than when im talking normally the consonants are formed in the mouth often using the tongue or lips in the process the sound carries the moisture from the mouth as large droplets the laser light she tests conducted in darkened rooms are designed to find out how far they fly and quantity. I find i loath. To see. The boys as a test completed thank you. And. The tea has a relatively the black character recently. And its been ok. The better because im very cold the valves we could hardly see any droplets flying out here and there for sure but in far lower numbers compared to the consequence. Thats what im concerned. Masks serve to catch the droplets but is singing with one even feasible for a professional performer as in mind if my gut feeling is no because singing is so emotional and if this is how well have to sing then ill look for a new profession if. The tests did later confirmed that the masks do catch the larger droplets expelled during singing some of these in the gulf as you can see in see however that the aerosols escaped through gobs which tend to be on the side of the mask or around the nose and they didnt spread pretty far through the room the white photog the researchers still stressed that donning a mask helps to increase safety but the main thing is keeping a distance of 2 and a half meters to the singer in front and half a meter to the side the ideal solution is to install plexiglas shields and ensure adequate ventilation. Is one place we human beings are probably safe from the coronavirus the International Space station. All astronauts have to go into quarantine before they launch that was the case even before covert 19. And all cargo that goes to the space station is festus infected. But out of view it dave might say i had a totally different question about the i assess. After so long in space why doesnt the i assess fall down to earth. Like most satellites the International Space station flies on an elliptical orbit 2 forces are in play centrifugal force pushes it out from the earth and gravity pulls it closer the to cancel each other out and the space station stays on course. The balance of forces accounts for the. Weightlessness on this island out in space 400 kilometers above the earths surface. The balance can be upset. At this altitude theres still a bit of atmosphere collisions with gas molecules slow the space station down. When that happens the force of gravity outweighs and the i assess loses altitude. Particles rejected by the sun can all sleep indirectly disturb the equilibrium of forces and pull the i s s off course the more the station is slowed down the quicker it would sink towards the earth eventually breaking apart and burning up in the atmosphere just like the Russian Space station mir which in 2001 was brought down that way in a controlled procedure. Regular orbital corrections prevent that from happening. Thats why satellites are equipped with thrusters to regain lost altitude. The i assessed get the necessary boost in part from the supply ships that regularly dock there. They maintain the stations course by firing their engines for a few minutes at a time. Since 2015 theres been a daily altitude loss of around 100 meters. Thats been balanced out with the help of the russian progress cargo craft in addition the i assess has its own control systems to keep it on track. News. If outlet is right why i mean i dont even know. If you have a science question send it in as a video text ovoid now if we answer it on the show youll get a little surprise as a thank you. Come on just. To find us at our web site t w dot com slash science or on to. The blueprint of life they determine so much about us including our physical appearance. Does a persons d. N. A. Reveal enough information about their skin and hair color to construct an image of an unknown individual. Scientists are working on that right now with a view to helping solve crimes. Composites of criminal suspects are based on eyewitness descriptions but investigators are starting to use other kinds of evidence to work out what a suspect looks like traces of blood saliva and hair that are often found at crime scenes. As a professor of molecular genetics you can tell whether a sample of d. N. A. Comes from a man or a woman and can often determine the age and the color of the hair skin and eyes of the person in question. Markers mean that certain dyes are stored in the iris or develop in their hair roots or influence the color of the skin. d with hair for example you can predict black hair very well ginger hair even better. Brown are trickier. What can tiny samples of genetic material reveal about chi and isabelle isnt it unnerving to think about that. It does feel strange that they can find out so much from one little drop of blood. For me its not a big deal. I reveal a lot more about myself on social media but this place so is a single drop of blood enough for professor schneider to compose an accurate picture of our 2 guinea pigs. We sent him the samples to analyze. In the late 1990 s. Germanys federal police set up a d. N. A. Database it now contains 360000 records and has already helped convict many criminals investigators compare d. N. A. Secured from crime scenes with the database. But a new method enables police to track down culprits via their physical appearance it has already helped solve a number of cases in the netherlands. In this case from 1902 the perpetrator attacked a young woman walking home alone through a park. Her body was found the following morning. On dorn was raped and murdered. The police appealed for assistance from local residents but nobody had seen either her or her killer. Mother police did secure semen they otherwise had little to go on the offender was not in any d. N. A. Database and there was no other way to identify any suspects the case remained unsolved for 25 years. Until molecular geneticist month and kinds of got on the case hes one of the scientists who developed the new method of d. N. A. Analysis which predicts certain visible characteristics as well as age and bio geographic ancestry. It looks at genes that are known to code for specific features. The results reveal the probability of a suspect. A particular fine hair or skin color. The geneticists use statistical methods to compile a profile of the individual. Theyre aided by Reference Data from partners in other countries and can then look for d. N. A. Markers attributed to populations in specific regions around the world. Is one fact like so basically you compare the d. N. A. Data of the unknown individual and use all the Reference Data for a joint Analysis Unit and start one shutdown and then you can see whether the unknown individual ends up in the data cloud for europe or africa or asia. In the case of milica front door and the key was to associate predicting visible features of the suspect to a certain geographical region in many different dont find it vos nish so dusty. Their welcome is if the d. N. A. Analysis said it was likely someone with turkish roots to it was an indigo and so on and because art what the analysis suggested was that it was somebody with roots in a region that includes turkey. As well as a number of other countries nearby. All men with turkish roots who had lived in the same neighborhood as the victim at the time were asked to come for a d. N. A. Test one of them was a close match for the d. N. A. Found at the crime scene a relative of the perpetrator. 2 men did not submit to a test one of them became the key suspect. The judge ruled he had to do a test. At 1st he refused but then he did a Perfect Match to the d. N. A. Found at the scene of the crime after a quarter of a century the murder case was solved the new method may be very promising but the analysis of biogeographical ancestry is not permitted in germany. As a sociologist and also works on ethical issues surrounding genetics d. N. A. Analysis and the storage of d. N. A. Data. One on a forensic genetics could also reveal susceptibility to certain diseases which would be of interest to Health Insurers and other parties but there is a right to confidentiality. Critics also say police d. N. A. Databases can be abused to track down relatives of people in it in germany the police d. N. A. Database already covers close to one percent of the adult population. Back to the d. N. A. Samples of our test subjects kind isabel. Has managed to find out what they look like just from their d. N. A. Because wolf yes. Subject number 4 as a male by 21 years of age his eye color is definitely blue. His hair color its probably brown whose skin is lice which is typical for a central european. So far so good but move the professor call the right chance with isabel to. An interesting subject this is a female we believed to be between 32 and 40 years old or she definitely has red hair. The days are very clear on that and shes either life or very light skinned and it was. Wrong but why. Isabel is not a typical case one of her parents is from norway the other from morocco. Routes in different places can lead to false results or were just as friends or not something we need to examine more closely. So the new method is not reliable more work needs to be done. Our little experiment suggests that the potential could be huge but for now d. N. A. Tests cannot be used to generate realistic facial composites. Thats all for this time from tomorrow today well be back next week with a whole new show until then stay safe and healthy. And. These are soul drivers should not be. German arms my track known cause the illegal to mexico above. Us is always seem to find ways to get around the german governments that some of. The exploits bombs Industry Leaders dog bad. 15 minutes on t w. Home. Or. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t. V. Shadow and a few in his face force one official information as a journalist i have walked off the streets of many can trust and they have problems are always the same 14 the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption who can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans on the scene or microphones who have decided to put their trust in us the name is Jenny Harrison and werent a deed. Whatever we begin to the day will effect get out of syria to annapolis fear of the increase of the temperature. 21st you have to start the fire started to decrease the amount of c o 2 programs now this is actually not a hard problem that just takes will however there are very important economic interests to all and a lot of coal who own a lot of oil that are doing Everything Possible to make sure this doesnt happen or we have to fight them by 2050 will be well on the way to a lot of them were doable solar wind im optimistic that. Were not totally the same as p. C. This is developing news live from Burlington Bella ricin president Alexander Lukashenko rallies his supporters after a week of protests that follow his disputed reelection feel thora tarion lead a asks regime loyalists to defend the country and its independence but the opposition is keeping up the pressure of holding its biggest demonstration yet in the capital minsk on sunday also