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World Service,23 Oct 1995,28 mins

The abalone and family planning

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How the abalone's evolution might help with the development of contraception. Because they produce lots of eggs and sperm they can be studied easily. Also in the programme, a mushroom from the age of the dinosaurs, a new way of treating epilepsy with heart disease medication and a cosmic space-station vacuum cleaner being used on Mir.

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