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Nationwide demand for plasma donations now exceeds that for blood. Yesterday Sky Tower lit up gold to highlight the urgent need for plasma donors nationwide, with the New Zealand Blood Service urging Kiwis to give up an hour and a half of their time to give some of this life-saving "liquid gold" and save lives. 

Emily spoke to the National Communications and Marketing Manager at New Zealand Blood Service, Asuka Burge, about the agency's new plasma campaign and how you can get involved.

Endometriosis is a chronically painful, invasive, inflammatory disease, with limited treatment options and long delays to diagnosis, which impacts 10% of females in New Zealand.

This study, conducted by the University of Canterbury, covers three themes associated with endometriosis patient experiences: intensity of pain, diagnostic tool shortcomings and perspectives of treatment options.

Joe spoke to Katherine Ellis, one of the co-authors of the study from the University of Canterbury, on the matter.

This week on The Wire for Rāhina Monday!

Joe speaks to Emma Brodie, a Campaign's Officer from SAFE for Animals, about animals continuing to suffer amidst calls from agri-business to delay winter grazing regulations. He also chats with Katherine Ellis from the University of Canterbury, about women with endometriosis experiencing long delays and dismissive doctors before a diagnosis. Finally, Joe speaks to Sarah Helm, the NZ Drug Foundation’s Executive Director, about the recent report to overhaul Aotearoa’s approach to methamphetamine treatment  

For this weeks regular fortnightly segment, Tomorrow's World!  Isla and Stella explore a new combination of methodologies that means we can extract DNA from shells. They speak to Kerry Walton from the University of Otago on the matter.

That's us for the Monday Wire!

Antarctica New Zealand has recently deployed new underwater robots to document the bottom of the ross sea. 

The new robots conduct “speed-sampling” , a new style of sampling allowing quick capturing of areas regular divers cannot receive. 

These robots are being deployed in efforts to understand as much of the ross sea as possible, before the changing climate makes that task impossible. 

Liam had a kōrero with MIles Lamar, an investigator on the Antarctica New Zealand programme, about the robot and the climate.