there are many debates on refugees but nobody actually. it's why i want to give them a political voice. one last hurdle remains in order to get into the terek allows us to be a german citizen he has already citizenship if all goes well the greens can put him on the official lisa candidates by spring. from. memory can keep up to date on our website. on social media as well as. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update. on t w. d q you know that 77 percent. are younger than 60.

that's me and me. and you know what it's time no voice is. 77 percent. this is where you. go 77 percent this weekend on w. beaching at home the new normal now for most of us around the world kids don't go to school there are no school meals adults can't eat out because restaurants and cafes are closed that means back into the kitchen and do your own cooking trend to the chosen interesting side effects. organic and regional produce has become even

more popular. just wanted to support local farmers and vendors but the main reason for a rise in organic crude seems to be that most of us believe healthy food will keep us healthy too. during a pandemic that's a pretty good incentive. hello and welcome to a new and hopefully tasty edition of our night in special i want to jones and i have to say all of that looked yummy i don't know where they did their grocery shopping but if you're here in berlin you'll probably turn to organic food producers here in the region their business is thriving despite or because of the pandemic it's unusually quiet in the farm shop here in port of in brandenburg due to the pandemic only 3 customers have been in this morning. the people from berlin aren't coming it's very sad that people are forced to stay home. it's called

. the cafes closed no weddings or events allowed the international green week that happens in berlin every january was online this year so no catering contract the store and catering service turnover is down by 75 percent. it is a bit depressing also for colleagues who can't do their normal jobs but i. can. catch up on my son and her husband didn't have to put any of their employees on reduced hours they even hired 20 new people because they were getting produce delivery service is booming. they have 180 cows and produce milk and cheese in the farm dairy. the eco village board of the union also runs a kitchen in the nearby town of marjah which produces items such as chicken stock pickle peat and potato soup. the organic farms turnover has risen 50 percent during

the pandemic. to be honest i'm overwhelmed right things here have undergone dramatic changes and dramatic changes are always a challenge. at the moment he and his team are delivering organic produce to some 3600 customers a week in brandenburg berlin and also to supermarket chains. that's a 3rd more than before covert 19 germany has seen a 20 percent rise in sales of organic goods during the pandemic. is enough as one of us in the product side the demand really spiked when people were a bit panicked back in march april but the other issue is trust people need something they can trust in this difficult time that the organic market exudes trust with innes so it's become increasingly popular and smaller local stores have

also become more popular. many consumers are keen to support local businesses. the airport it's a positive development it's hard work it's very challenging but it's great it's true it's great the customers are supporting us and little fun my son is already thinking ahead he wants to build loyalty that will outlive the pandemic. for more i'm joined now by the diary he's the co-founder and director of lucien ridge bio a micro biome a company in the indian city of bangalore companies working on preventive health care and position medicine it's a very good to have you with us dr dhar and i'm sure you're familiar with the saying you are what you eat does this mean that all diseases perhaps even including 19 begin in the gut. well thank you thank you monica for having me on the show it's a pleasure. you know interest i know it got as big as you know it. and

on 70 percent of the immune system to fight in the interesting and a lot of the diseases especially the chronic diseases like you know type 2 diabetes . these human mental diseases like parkinson's and stuff like that have been shown to be linked to the got. i mean there's something going to lung x. is there's something called as good brain x. is that it's got a skin axis so yeah a lot of diseases actually. you know have a link to the dark. and could be one thing since we already know endemic you know so in 1000 people have seen. is that the 1st 2 whitish that infix the lung through. to now is to result to present in the industry you know. in this time so

a lot of the fat in the interesting have that particular receptor and. this might also be interesting to. you. and not just one thing really. lot of researchers have found. industry of people afflicted with this disease exactly and we also now because it's not just the intestine but basically the body we co-exist with with millions of microorganisms partly also responsible for our digestion of course. how can we support. to fight the enemy a virus for example that enters our body. the micro-organisms especially since we're talking about it got microbiome micro biome micro-organisms. rule in not only you know metabolism of a lot of the indecisive lot of vitamins in fact sugar toning which is

a new transmitter is also a good thing to say in the interest and so it's a very important. seem particularly that we have it on microorganisms and the best thing about the microbes in the gut at least is that. what we mean by that means they can be more delicate and they can be more diluted by food and hence we come to the very important topic that you have put across. so when we take care of the gut. by taking care of the microorganisms that means a good microorganisms should be you know should be encouraged to grow so that microorganisms can grow then people be healthier that's the idea and how do we promote good bacteria good microorganisms when there are many ways. especially in the food to the topic is on this. weekend yet you know just give us an example of

i mean we all have to eat and that includes you give us the perfect meal especially now in in the times of the pandemic that that keeps us healthy and that supports our immune system what's the pasig meal. so portrait me to my mind would have you know equal representation of fiber. because 5. people are to. prove arctics group. of course a lot of if you did lots of people are sure you know taking what you do good. microorganisms to cut down on the meek because they'd meet leads to something called less demeo and that can cause a lot of issues have. you don't have a lot of nuts greens and stuff like that all of these in equal proportion. can out and help stay healthy does it matter whether it's organic growing because people are really crazy about getting produce right now. so the organic foods are

basically food grown without you know writing any. of their being that way. but i mean if you if you eat fruit or fruit vegetables which are grown non-organic really but but have a good proportion of you know humans and the grains and you know the next and omega 3 fatty acids that we can have from let's say you know fish and stuff like that it should it should help so yes organic food is good but even if you don't have all going to food it is not going to change a lot of things so right the right balance and nurturing the good microorganisms in our body. found a director of the micro biome the company new scenes in bangalore thank you so much for your time thank you thank you monica for having me. well time now for your

questions i want to derrick williams. what's the latest on whether humans can pass the virus on to their pets. that we still don't know the exact route it took through exactly which species the coronavirus came from the animal world in the 1st place so of course there's been a lot of worry since the beginning of the pandemic that infected people might also infect their pets proven examples of that occurring are quite rare though though it does happen and and the affected animals are also occasionally mildly symptomatic or one study indicated that kant's and ferrets are more likely to get it than dogs and in evolutionary terms ferrets are of course pretty closely related to make which seem to be more susceptible to the disease in another horrendous chapter

in this hand that many of the detection of prove it 19 that further farms in europe lead to millions of names being told last year the reason for the dryness to move was the fear that populations of animals at the farms could serve as as reservoirs for sars kovi too and also that packed cages of sick me might accelerate the development of even more dangerous new variants of the disease and to prevent that scenario in the future researchers in both russia and the u.s. has been working on back scenes that could be used in making that that are all that different to some of the vaccines being developed for us if they are approved and licensed we might even see the 1st meaning being vaccinated in a month or 2 and manufacturers say they could quickly adapt their products. for for other domesticated animals including dogs and cats i'm guessing pets probably won't

be far behind. and as we're all waiting to get vaccinated why not go for a sugary substitute in the meantime this syringe shaped cake may not protect you from kobe 19th but it will certainly sweet new day a bakery in germany came up with the idea and it's not their 1st pandemic inspired product remember the hunt for toilet rolls last year i think about it just again. that's it thanks for watching. his cancer research benefiting from the fight against coronaviruses doctors in germany are testing out in muzak scene that comes from the scene where tori's been used by penn demick researchers it's designed to help the body find cancer cells. with a funny edge approach this vaccine is tailored to the immune system of each patient

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alcohol. unhealthy diet. pathogens like the hepatitis b. virus. pollution and sun exposure just some of the known carcinogens. cancer is one of the main causes of death with nearly 10000000 cancer deaths in 2018 alone in the future some of these diseases could be prevented by that explains. a customize vaccine created for an individual patient is particular schumer fast effective and with few side effects that's the promise of new n r n a technology in the fight against cancer. and this tumor center in homburg oncologist and his colleagues are preparing to start to nicol trials as one of several european facilities testing experimental comes. vaccine. is one of the most modern

approach is essentially we arm the immune system to take on the enemy in this case the tumor. what makes a malignant tumor so challenging is that for years it can slip past the body's defenses with camouflage so clever that the immune system doesn't notice the invader or is too weak to keep the cancer cells at bay allowing the to my to grow on hindered. that was the case with one of dr ahmad's patients who wishes to remain anonymous his cancer was fine during a routine colonoscopy by which time it was advanced with metastases in the liver. back then my life expectancy was estimated to be just a few months it was an utter shock. luckily both the tumor in his intestine and the liver metastases could be

surgically removed in a single operation the treatment was required to reduce the risk of the tumor returning that's the best that you will give even the world's top surgeon can't detect single scattered tumor cells in the body that may even be dormant and not multiplying. them a doctor can change the biology of this disease. we know that latent tumour cells can survive inside the body for a long time and they can wake up and start to divide and proliferate again of them . after surgery chemotherapy is often administered to prevent this and to destroy the remaining tumor cells but the treatment also attacks healthy cells in the body. it feels like you're being filled with poison. with the help of a new m.r.i. on

a vaccine the hope is to prompt the patient's immune system to target the tumor unlike typical vaccinations it doesn't involve injecting the body with deactivated components of the disease. the messenger m r n a injected into the muscle tissue provides the blueprint for a specific tumor protein. once it has the blueprints the body then produces its own tumor modules the immune system recognizes them as foreign and produces antibodies the body is now armed with the knowledge of the enemy it faces . was. basically in the production process instead of making it in a laboratory with all the technical procedures it starts out inside the patient's body which ultimately produces it on its own to teach the immune system what it needs to know. the researchers hope the vaccination will enable

the immune system to identify tumor cells in the blood early on before they form metastases. and worst goal is for the immune system to keep trying new tumor residues it or destroy them then the chance of recovery is greater . expect an upcoming study to shed light on whether that really works he investigates the immune system's response to colon cancer at the national center for tumor diseases in hydel back. n. r. n a vaccine in the study is made by minds based pharma company buy on tech covert 1000 vaccine is based on the same technology. back into being in the u.s. bases are also using m r n a technology in the fight against cancer as well as cause it the goal is to give cancer sufferers personalized vaccinations and. the near future. by the start this

is a real milestone we're no longer talking about months or years until it's ready just weeks its significance and potential efficacy have opened up a whole new playing field. while the focus remains on the coronavirus annoyed at his patients will have to wait until their cancer vaccine is available the colon cancer patient hopes to have a ready beaten his illness by then but should the cancer recur he'd like to be part of a trial with an m.r.i. and a vaccine. to me initially it all sounds very promising with significantly fewer side effects from a patients point of view it's a great cause for hope but how many vaccine doses does it take will the immune booster on its own enable the body to fight the tumor effectively or will it only compliment chemotherapy. there are still many small steps along the way that need to be understood for it to succeed to find out what the possible hurdles are. and

that's why these studies are being carried out. it will take some years before the results are known but on college just world wide are confident that the new technology will become a powerful weapon in the fight against cancer. customized meds and the great hope for the future and it's long overdue with regard to gender differences. from a medical standpoint men and women are not created equal. and successful therapies are very different in men and women as the next report shows. had a heart attack last year and she's not back to her old self yet she'd always exercised regularly and was never sick she never imagined she might have

a heart problem. i live a healthy life don't drink and don't smoke. so i fulfilled many preconditions for actually being healthy. i didn't have any pains in my heart. so i had no reason to think there was anything wrong. with me it's often said that it's mainly men who have heart attacks but that's wrong women with high blood pressure are in fact at much greater risk than men with high blood pressure of having a heart attack and they're more likely to die if they have one. professor gave heart aims to change that she's a cardiologist and a specialist in gender specific medicine with a focus on women's hearts. and fortunately the imbalance in heart research is particularly extreme

a new study for example had 85 percent male tests. objects and just 15 percent women and a consequence because of a lack of data and clinical studies on women they suffer many more side effects just want to know hoff to 2 times as many men that's come up with this one as a few guidelines for treatment in clinical practice and what i considered normal values really only apply to men we don't have the equivalent for women. so i can live. off was lucky many women with heart problems don't go to the doctor because they don't recognise the symptoms in medical terms there are many differences between men and women with respect to the heart they pronounced women's hearts tend to shrink over time men's grows like the lodger. professor gates has done research into the susceptibility of women's hearts to

stress she conducted an experiment with $32.00 women and $32.00 men aged between $50.70 that looked at the interplay of heart and brain the hybrid scanner images both soft tissue and organ function at the same time that's great for studying the interplay of brain activity and the heart that involved subjecting test subjects to mental stress as the since mystic that it's important for you to count down from 100 in steps of say to you reach 0 you have to do it just fast as you can ok ok. we can see clearly that in the fia center in the brain and this is a significant increase in volume in these 2 areas the fia center has been activated that. act. and now we look at the heart we can image that as

well during the examination we can see very clearly that in this small part of the heart disruption of blood flow occurred after the stress. this kind of thing makes women more vulnerable for example in the case of a heart attack so much in the house in fact off that day pot has found that in women stress plays a major role in heart disease. or aim is to improve diagnostics and treatment. by most of these share of pain needs to take a patient's stress situation into account and develop specific ways for women to reduce their stress levels. still feels weaker than before her heart attack advances in gender specific cardiology may soon help other women seek and find the right treatment before things get too serious. if our blood is red why aren't why i don't even if you. do you have

a science question you'd like us to answer. send it in as a video text or voice mail if we featured on the show if you look at a little surprise from us as a thank you come on just ask. to find us on our website d.w. dot com slash science or look for us on twitter. this is the there are many. it's played without physical contact. the position of players her hands in relation to 2 antennas controls the pitch and volume of the music. our next report is about a device that allows every movement of the body to be translated into sounds. it's a technology that lends itself particularly well to special education and therapy.

what if even the smallest of movements could generate a sound then almost everybody could make music with their body. motion composer is a device designed to help people with disabilities overcome their isolation. it was developed by robert wexler. the american choreographer and dancer who's lived in germany since 99 take. it you have the wrong ones and nature said we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once i don't think you meant it metaphorically it's practical advice we really should dance and make music every day it makes us

happier it makes us more human. but still wants everybody to be able to do say whatever their physical or mental abilities. it's been a minute as for i'll attach my opinion that we're all dancers and all musicians that's the principle underlying motion composer that lets us all live out these instincts. whatever our abilities. in the 1970 s. in new york started experimenting with motion tracking. dancers movements were registered with the help of sun says attached to their bodies. and then translated by an electronic device into sounds. ok dr march i thought this is fun perhaps we can work on it until anybody can do it.

what's the follow through on that with support from the bauhaus university environment and funding from the european union he and a team of software developers composers and therapists got down to working 2010 to develop the technology and make it easy to use. prince nicholas motion the principle behind motion composer is that if we make a movement and this movement triggers a nice sound. and if we realize that we made that happen ourselves. then we're already making music and dancing. in the one concert. but slow has come to this t.v. studio.

he's here to demonstrate how motion composer works. to house with the biggest challenge in developing motion composer was the engineering. this sound like this or this was no handbook to refer to we had to try out a lot of things. and because. people who use motion composer have to grasp that it's their own movements that are making the sounds that's the case. to cameras register movements in 3 day. software on allies is the data and translates it in real time into sounds. and. even the tiniest of movements is enough. the device features are great at different musical environments and soundscapes and. on and on what i hope.

you can move and compose alone or with others. or mention to him for people with disabilities this complaint important role to be it's easy it motivates them to move. to express how they're feeling and to interact with others. and that's what's important in the beef disaster. as a tool to stimulate movement motion composer can be used in creative approaches to therapy rehabilitation and specialized education. dancing making music and in front of an audience can be a whole new experience. in my most

people's reactions are really intense full of emotion and joy it's not uncommon to see people cry it out workshops tears of joy all right it's a really beautiful thing. as a dancer robert wexler was often in the limelight. with motion composer he brings of those out of the shadows. this sounds melodies and rhythms of music evoke different emotions and as. the feelings we have about a particular piece of music may change over time that. the music that once seemed dramatic or uplifting might now sound cheesy or old fashioned. but there are hits that stand the test of time what makes a song

a hit can it be boiled down like that science is trying to find out. no wonder this was a smash hit. after just 2. and this. one makes a hit a hit that's what brain researcher vincent chong wants to find out. i really enjoy music and the question i really wanted to ask is what makes a song so powerful and so motional. why do i get such a strong feeling when i listen to the music that i enjoy. and his team analyzed $80000.00 chords in $745.00 songs that reach the u.s. charts a computer program calculated whether each chord was predictable or unexpected in the context of the whole track. then they played the chord sequences stripped of

melody and lyrics to a selection of test persons who then had to say if they like the. our brains work hard when we listen to music it stimulates the parts of the brain that process ound but also the parts responsible for our emotions memory and knowledge. the experiment showed that 2 factors in particular increase the likelihood that the test persons liked what they heard. for the 1st instances where the uncertainty is low and the surprise is high and called for good see if the chord progression is fairly predictable most people are happy to hear a surprising chord and it works the other way around too if the chord progression makes you feel like you don't know where it's going to fall east. most people are happy to hear a predictable chord called in other words it conforms their expectations and. good

music skillfully manipulates us we like music best when it comes sounds our expectations. could this principle be used to develop the perfect formula for a number one hex. stefan bowman has a doctorate in music and artificial intelligence to him then synching study demonstrates that the chords in chart toppers are mostly simple ones c. major is the most commonly used just chords make only rare appearances particular chord progressions are also common. for chords dozens of hits. this australian band created a medley of popular songs all set to the same chord progression. to.

a long enough. on the cell means i'm. having counseling. the clip goes to show that most smash hits are pretty similar yes. there's been a search for a hit formula for as long as i've been working on the field yemen people have set up companies focused on hit songs sorry i'm switched flopped awfully because i hit a piece of music ultimately depends on a cultural context that changes all the time on the snow forts why that's why you're on. in other words pop is all about the zeitgeist whatever the latest sound is plus some clever marketing and these days certain john ross and artists are also promoted with the help of recommendation systems. hit song

science shows that tracks featuring the work you are more likely to climb the charts. still success can't be guaranteed there are too many variables not to mention the goosebumps factor. only. yulia bristol is a ph d. student in computer science at the german research center for artificial intelligence she monitors test person's skin conductance while they listen to music for signs of stress or emotional response she herself reacts positively to this song. some of the big nomadism of the day you a combination of the female vocals and the melody that appeals to me it seems to have a depth it moves me. and signal registers this response to the i.v. . are others likely to respond the same way this sort of data could be gathered on

a large scale and be used to train machine learning programs to identify what sort of news. it is most likely to trigger an emotional response in listeners. another approach is to analyze a database of songs and then create similar compositions. in 2016 daddy's car was the 1st song ever written by a guy. the program was tasked with creating a new track on the basis of $45.00 beatles songs going. to sleep excellence to. get to sleep the latest software is able to modify tried and tested hits ad infinitum. hotel california for example. just how. could it be

a brand new hit or is something missing. the feel the songs were in there are many songs were written by someone unhappy in love depressed on drugs or in a state of euphoria the machine doesn't have to try to just switch it on that it gets to work it has no sense of mortality it just runs and runs use their machine and become the lawyer for him at. the moment might be an ai experts but his musical taste is old school he believes a hit song should be moving and unique but going by spotify algorithms hits are becoming increasingly formulaic it's something proves popular it's copied a lot of music producers who work with different artists repeat themselves music is getting ever more predictable and ai will only consolidate the trend. it probably won't be too long before researchers come up with the perfect formula for

a number one hits but will these songs leave you goosebumps like the hits of the past. probably not. that's all for this edition of tomorrow today join us again next time for more fascinating stories from science and technology. stay healthy and stay curious.

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