Latest Stem Life Sciences Podcast Episodes
Advocating for Science and Research - The Journey
We Love Science - May 05, 2024 20:00 - 32 minutesWe continue our conversation with Dr. Adriana Bankston, founder and CEO, Bankston Policy Consulting LLC to learn more about her career path. Her journey of discovery started close to home, in a family filled with scientists–from her grandparents to her parents. As an undergraduate at Clemson Uni...
Neuro highlights: SNAP, tickles, and unpopular beliefs
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - April 30, 2024 11:44 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 87 ratingsFor April's episode, James Tytko brings you the latest and greatest in neuroscience news and views. First, we're probing a touchy subject, finding out whether our tactile sense might be the most underappreciated of all. Then, the sequence of genes responsible for cognitive impairment in those wit...
Advocating for Science and Research - The Work
We Love Science - April 21, 2024 20:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode, we explore policy for science with Dr. Adriana Bankston Founder and CEO, Bankston Policy Consulting LLC. As an advocate for science and research, Adriana shares the outcomes of research with members of Congress to support the continued support of federally funded research by pol...
The CRISPR cure for Sickle Cell Disease
We Love Science - April 08, 2024 03:00 - 34 minutesIn this fourth installment of the CRISPR Chronicles, show hosts Fatu and Shekerah give a review of sickle cell anemia, the cause and symptoms of the disease, and discuss how the CRISPR gene therapy treatment works. Tune in to learn more about: · The genetic basis of Sickle Cell Disease ...
The CRISPR Cure for Sickle Cell Disease
We Love Science - April 08, 2024 03:00 - 34 minutesIn this fourth installment of the CRISPR Chronicles, show hosts Fatu and Shekerah give a review of sickle cell anemia, the cause and symptoms of the disease, and discuss how the CRISPR gene therapy treatment works. Tune in to learn more about: The genetic basis of Sickle Cell Disease What Am...
'Nostalgia ain't what it used to be,' with Charan Ranganath
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - March 28, 2024 04:05 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode is an extended interview with Dr Charan Ranganath, director of the Memory and Plasticity Program and a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California at Davis. He's also the author of the book, 'Why we remember.' James Tytko started by asking him about his l...
'Nostalgia ain't what it used to be,' with Charan Ranganath
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - March 28, 2024 04:05 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 87 ratingsThis episode is an extended interview with Dr Charan Ranganath, director of the Memory and Plasticity Program and a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California at Davis. He's also the author of the book, 'Why we remember.' James Tytko started by asking him about his l...
Connecting the Dots between Theory, Physics, and Mathematics - The Journey
We Love Science - March 24, 2024 20:00 - 40 minutesWe continue our conversation with Jishad Kumar on his journey in science. Jishad remembers his first science wow moment during his childhood when a teacher captivated his interest in optics with kaleidoscopes. His curiosity instantly peaked and he really wanted to learn more about how to make su...
Connecting the Dots between Theory, Physics, and Mathematics - The Work
We Love Science - March 10, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutesIn this episode, Shekerah and Fatu have a delightful conversation with Jishad Kumar, a theorist and researcher. As a theorist he uses concrete assumptions and models to solve problems which can then be further investigated with in depth experimentation. Jishad’s journey into theoretical physics...
The Colorful Life of Bird Eggs
We Love Science - February 25, 2024 21:00 - 24 minutesIt’s another Science Short, and today Fatu and Shekerah discover how bird eggs get their color–from brown, white, blue, speckled, and everything in between. To this day, scientists do not have a good understanding of why egg color developed in birds, but they do know that this trait co-evolved w...
Brain chips: 'Moral imperative' or a danger to liberty?
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - February 13, 2024 05:37 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis month, James Tytko explores the dangers of debunking fake news online with Francis Madden, and discusses ongoing developments in the neuroscience of Long COVID with Stephanie Brown. Then, following on from Elon Musk's news that his brain chip company Neuralink have successfully implanted the...
Brain chips: 'Moral imperative' or a danger to liberty?
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - February 13, 2024 05:37 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 87 ratingsThis month, James Tytko explores the dangers of debunking fake news online with Francis Madden, and discusses ongoing developments in the neuroscience of Long COVID with Stephanie Brown. Then, following on from Elon Musk's news that his brain chip company Neuralink have successfully implanted the...
Science CEO Level: Unlocked - The Journey
We Love Science - February 11, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutesDr. Maria Qadri, CEO of Clearwater Leadership begins the conversation on her journey into entrepreneurship with memories of building things (flat pack furniture) with her father–both of her parents were engineers and science-y discussions were a hallmark of her childhood. As a child, Maria slowl...
Science CEO Level: Unlocked - The Work
We Love Science - January 28, 2024 20:00 - 14 minutesOur journey into science entrepreneurship continues! In this episode we speak to Dr. Maria Qadri, founder of Clearwater Leadership which specializes in data analysis, science communication, and leadership development training. As a new founder of her own company, Maria already has her sights set...
Discovery, Development, and Cures - The CRISPR Saga
We Love Science - January 15, 2024 04:00 - 55 minutesYou may think that the CRISPR-Cas genome engineering tool was developed from simple human ingenuity. And while its development certainly involved ingenuity, CRISPR was birthed in the wild. As a product of nature, it has an essential function in its native host; spoilers: its natural function inv...
Traumatic brain injuries: Invisible wounds of war
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - January 12, 2024 05:24 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 87 ratingsToday, we're taking a closer look at traumatic brain injuries, TBIs. We'll be hearing from the doctors who are treating them, and a former soldier who is suffering from a host of mental health conditions as a consequence of his military service.And a bit later on, we'll find out how scientists ar...
Traumatic brain injuries: Invisible wounds of war
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - January 12, 2024 05:24 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsToday, we're taking a closer look at traumatic brain injuries, TBIs. We'll be hearing from the doctors who are treating them, and a former soldier who is suffering from a host of mental health conditions as a consequence of his military service.And a bit later on, we'll find out how scientists ar...
The Art of Science with Laura Canil - The Journey
We Love Science - December 31, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutesWe continue our discussion with Laura Canil to learn about her journey in becoming a scientific illustrator. Her earliest memories in science didn't exactly start in science–initially she wanted to be an inventor and then a painter. As she continued in her education, Laura started to also explor...
The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 3: Boating Out to David Buoy
Genome Insider - December 21, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutesThis is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode i...
The Art of Science with Laura Canil - The Work
We Love Science - December 17, 2023 20:00 - 18 minutesWe Love Science is closing out 2023 with another spectacular interview. In this episode we speak with Dr. Laura Canil, a freelance scientific illustrator with her own company, CanilVisuals. As a scientific illustrator, Laura takes on a variety of projects like creating figures to accompany journ...
The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 2: Souped Up Computing
Genome Insider - December 07, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutesThis series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that pr...
The Secret Behind CRISPR Gene Editing
We Love Science - December 04, 2023 02:00 - 26 minutesHumans have ~6 billion bases of DNA in each cell. But every gene has a specific and unique sequence that serves as a kind of genetic address. Before any gene can be edited, the editor must first find the gene's location within the genome. Luckily CRISPR-Cas has a built-in GPS component that make...
Diverse roots: Investigating youth mental health
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - November 24, 2023 04:36 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis time on Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko explores the miracle of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with Stephanie Brown from the University of Cambridge, including a new innovation to decrease 'scan-xiety' amongst children. Then, we'll be investigating the complexities of the current youth men...
Diverse roots: Investigating youth mental health
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - November 24, 2023 04:36 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 87 ratingsThis time on Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko explores the miracle of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with Stephanie Brown from the University of Cambridge, including a new innovation to decrease 'scan-xiety' amongst children. Then, we'll be investigating the complexities of the current youth men...
The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 1: Many, Many Mers
Genome Insider - November 21, 2023 19:00 - 26 minutesLake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest pr...
Sista, Sista! Graduate School Years - The Journey
We Love Science - November 19, 2023 21:00 - 23 minutesIn this episode Shekerah and Fatu continue their discussion with Ijeoma Kola, a public health historian of race and medicine. When she was younger, Ijeoma didn’t exactly have a science spark moment, but she was positively influenced by her mother’s career as a nurse. She remembers in middle scho...
Experimenting with EcoFABs for Student Labs - Jill Bouchard & Ying Wang
Genome Insider - November 09, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutesTo set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. ...
Sista, Sista! Graduate School Years - The Work
We Love Science - November 05, 2023 20:00 - 29 minutesThe good conversations just keep coming! In this episode we meet Dr. Ijeoma Kola, a historian of public health with an emphasis on race and medicine; her current research focuses on the evolution of the understanding of asthma in Black urban communities in the 20th century. In short, she is a st...
How CRISPR Gene Therapy is Bringing Hope to the World
We Love Science - October 23, 2023 03:00 - 24 minutesEvery year, approximately 8 million children are born with a serious genetic disorder, and 3 million of them die before the age of 5. This disease burden is about to change. In this episode, we launch the CRISPR Chronicles series that will run throughout season 3. Since the pivotal paper by Doud...
In the brain of the beholder: Music across cultures
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists - October 21, 2023 08:42 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsKicking off a new series of Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko serves up the latest research making waves in brain science with the help of Stephanie Brown and Francis Madden. This month, the brain networks linked with addiction, and why suppressing negative thoughts might be the best way to look af...
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