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Radio 4,2 mins
Series Series 6
‘It tasted like off-chicken’ - Nobel-winning professor’s self-experimentation
The Infinite Monkey CageAvailable for over a year
As part of The Infinite Monkey Cage’s special on maverick scientists, Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall tells the panel how he drank bacteria to prove his theory that a bacterium rather than stress called peptic ulcers. Live from the Cheltenham Festival of Science, featuring special guest Marcus Brigstocke.
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