11:45 Octopus farm, bacteria-busting viruses and old bedbugs
Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles looks at why researchers believe we shouldn't farm octopuses, how a 15-year-old cystic fibrosis patient had her chronic infection treated using genetically-engineered bacteria-busting viruses and bedbugs are 50 million years older than previously thought.
Bed bugs are now believed to have evolved 100 million years ago. Photo: 123RF/smith_mailbox@yahoo.com
Associate Professor Dr Siouxsie Wiles is the head of Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland.
