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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Futureproof Extra: Eosinophilic Oesophagitis

At the moment it seems like almost the whole science community is focussed on Covid 19. And while it’s obvious to us all that this is an important endeavour, there are still other diseases out there that also require research.  So, what is it like to plough a lonely furrow and commit to researching one of the more obscure diseases that afflicts human beings? Dr Joanne Masterson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at NUI Maynooth and Member of the Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research, she joined Jonathan to discuss.