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Radio 4,2 mins

SeriesSeries 6

‘It tasted like off-chicken’ - Nobel-winning professor’s self-experimentation

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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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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