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On Science in Action this week we look at the ethical concerns behind the so-called 鈥淶ombie Pigs鈥�. Using a machine called BrainEx a team from Yale University part-revived pig brains hours after they had been removed from the body. The researchers are hoping it could lead to advancements in brain restoration but the NIH Brain Initiative says that there are many ethical questions researchers should now consider.

The Crick Institute in London has hosted their first Crick African Network symposium. The fellowship programme will train African researchers to tackle health challenges in their home countries by sharing the Crick's experience researching infectious diseases, including HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.

In Turkey, an international team of researchers has been closely examining soil layers at an early Neolithic site helping to identify the types of animals present through the history of the site.

CrowdScience heads out to CERN, in Switzerland, to find out what the universe is made of? Birthplace of the internet, home to the Large Hadron Collider, and the site of the Higgs Boson鈥檚 discovery 鈥� the fundamental particle that is thought to give all other particles their mass, and one of the most important scientific finds of the 21st Century. But that revelation wasn鈥檛 an end to the quest 鈥� in fact, it has raised many more questions for the physicists and engineers involved. Dr David Barney, CMS, and Dr Tara Nanut, LHCb, tell us why.