Bench to Broadcast

1 episode - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -

With the rise of COVID-19, conferences - the primary way scientists tell the world about their newest findings - have become much more challenging to organize and attend, in some cases vanishing altogether. Bench to Broadcast is an effort to get word out about exciting new scientific research in an accessible, entertaining way, straight from the lab to your ears.

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Thanks for the (Cellular) Memories

June 14, 2020 17:00 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MB

Your brain is an extremely complex organ. It needs hundreds of different kinds of cells to work properly - yet, every brain starts as just a small handful of nearly-identical stem cells. How do they figure out, and subsequently remember, what kinds of brain cells to make? Listen to this 5-minute explainer of Maintenance of neural stem cell positional identity by Mixed-lineage leukemia 1, published in the April 03 issue of Science, to find out! Read the paper at https://science.sciencemag.org/...