Tue, 30 October 2012
This week Zach and Kelly talk about how the blood of young mice makes old mice brains look young again, and whether or not genomics can help to predict the kinds of antidepressants to which a person will respond.
Direct download: Episode_35__Aging_and_antidepressants.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:01pm EDT |
Fri, 5 October 2012
This week Zach and Kelly discuss research on how to eliminate certain types of anxiety, and chat about Bisphenol A (BPA). |
Wed, 12 September 2012
This week Zach and Kelly talk about oxygen injections and exploding termites.
Direct download: Episode_33__Intravenous_oxygen_and_exploding_termites.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:46pm EDT |
Fri, 24 August 2012
This week Zach and Kelly talk to Dr. Scott Commins of the University of Virginia about his research on tick-induced meat allergies.
Direct download: Episode_32__Dr._Scott_Commins_and_tick-induced_allergies.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:24pm EDT |
Wed, 15 August 2012
This week Zach and Kelly bring back Dr. Michael Munger of Duke University to discuss how people parasitize economies and how parasites economize people.
Direct download: Episode_31__Parasites_and_economics_with_Dr._Michael_Munger.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:11pm EDT |
Tue, 31 July 2012
Today Zach and Kelly talk to Dr. Jordan Miller, a postdoctoral student in Dr. Christopher Chen's Tissue Microfabrication Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, about his recent breakthrough using 3D printing to create blood vessels.
Direct download: Episode_30__Dr._Jordan_Miller_on_the_use_of_3D_printing_to_make_blood_vessels.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:50pm EDT |
Thu, 19 July 2012
This week Zach and Kelly talk to Dillon McDowell, Josh Marion, and Melissa Loving about nanomagnets. All guests are past or current members of the Lewis Lab at Northeastern University. |
Sat, 30 June 2012
This week Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Christian Eggers about whether or not viruses should qualify as being "alive", and the importance of viruses in evolution.
Direct download: Episode_28__Dr._Christian_Eggers_and__Are_viruses_alive__.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:29am EDT |
Wed, 13 June 2012
This week Zach and Kelly are on an immune system kick, and discuss the potential downsides of new drug treatments and a new use for a previously existing drug.
Direct download: Episode_27__Antimicrobial_peptides_and_Truvada.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:41pm EDT |
Wed, 30 May 2012
This week Zach and Kelly talk to Elise Novitski, a PhD student studying CPT symmetry and the fine-structure constant in Dr. Gerald Gabrielse’s lab at Harvard.
Direct download: Episode_26__Elise_Novitski_discusses_CPT_symmetry_and_the_fine-structure_constant.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:15pm EDT |