August 2014: Recipes for New Drugs and New Neurons

Cell Podcast

English - August 28, 2014 13:00 - 19 minutes - ★★★★ - 23 ratings
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Previous Episode: July 2014: On Finding the Right Name and the Right Size

Next Episode: September 2014: The Gut-Brain Connection and Celebrating 20 years of Chemistry and Biology

In this edition, we learn about how in drug discovery, sometimes bias is a good thing, with Jonathan Violin (0:00) (Trends in Pharmacological Sciences), how crayfish turn blood cells into neurons, with Barbara Beltz (9:35) (Developmental Cell) and more great research highlights from around Cell Press (17:45).