May 2018: The Loneliest Mouse
Cell Podcast
English - May 31, 2018 07:00 - 29 minutes - ★★★★ - 23 ratingsScience Education medicine health care science and technology health national health service medical disease cancer politics diabetes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: April 2018: The Me Generation
Next Episode: June 2018: Caught the flu? Eat fiber
In this episode, we’ll hear about why you might want to be skeptical of raw water, with Gail Teitzel, Editor of Trends in Microbiology (00:00); how brain chemistry might change in mice as a result of social isolation, with David Anderson, Cell (07:45); and what’s unusual about neurons in people with severe obesity, with Dhruv Sareen, Cell Stem Cell (17:10). Then, stay tuned for our monthly news roundup, including using MRI to predict risk tolerance; rethinking what we know about genetics, sugar, and weight gain; and how the sweet potato arrived in Polynesia (26:13).