Latest Crispr Podcast Episodes
Stories from the 16th-18th centuries in Europe. Ep. 13
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 31, 2020 18:23 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Russian Plague of 1770 & the Plague Riots. the true and inspiring story of the English village of Eyam. More science about the bubonic plague. Ring Around the Rosie? Three types of bubonic plague. A bubonic plague vaccine? 16 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected]...
More plagues in the 16th-18th centuries in Europe. Ep. 12
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 31, 2020 00:17 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSweating sickness, typhus, lots more bubonic plague including the “Great Plague.” The Great Fire of London. 17 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
16th-18th century outbreaks and epidemics in America. Ep. 11
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 31, 2020 00:11 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGenerally brought to North America from Europeans. Yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, chickenpox, malaria, diptheria. Disease outbreaks among Native Americans. Timeline of outbreaks and descriptions. 16 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected]...
All About Viruses, Part 3. Retroviruses. Ep. 10
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 31, 2020 00:05 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat are retroviruses? Adeno-associated virus gene therapy (Duchenne muscular dystrophy example). 16 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
All About Viruses, Part 2. Ep. 9
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 23:59 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMore characteristics of viruses. Origins of viruses. Are they alive? How do viruses replicate (“life cycle”)? 12 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
All About Viruses, Part 1. Ep. 8
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 23:50 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat’s a virus? What types are there? How do they make us sick? How were they discovered? Viruses are NOT inherently bad? What are phages and what is phage therapy? 20 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Lin...
Pandemics in Mexico in the 1500’s. Ep. 7
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 23:41 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDevastation from smallpox brought by Europeans. It’s effect on the Aztec Empire. Firsthand accounts. Smallpox symptoms. The origin of smallpox. The famous story of Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccine, but who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Also the Cocoliztli Epidemic. 16 min Pandemics & Patho...
The Black Death. 1346-1353. Ep. 6
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 23:33 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe most famous plague in history. Symptoms of the bubonic plague. Where it hit. Death toll. Types of bubonic plague. The Sedlec Ossuary. The Plague Cross. 12 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
Japanese Smallpox Epidemic. 735-737 AD. Ep. 5
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 23:25 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSmallpox affected all of Japanese society, up to the very top. 7 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
Two Roman & Byzantine Epidemics. Ep. 4
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 23:14 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Antonine Plague (165 A.D., smallpox?) and the Plague of Justinian (541 A.D., bubonic plague). 8 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
Roman & Byzantine Epidemics. Ep. 4
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 23:14 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Antonine Plague (165 A.D., smallpox?) and the Plague of Justinian (541 A.D., bubonic plague). 8 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
B.C. Era Epidemics. Ep. 3
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 23:07 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSome definitions we should know, followed by descriptions of three epidemics from 5000 to 430 B.C. 10 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
Five general types of infectious agents. Ep. 2
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 30, 2020 18:43 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSomewhat arbitrary, but here are five classes of infectious agents. The word “pathogen” still fails to come to mind. 5 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
Introduction. Two types of “Deadly Microscopic Agents.” Ep. 1
Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present - October 26, 2020 00:02 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn introduction to what I’ll be talking about. Today: types of toxins. Somehow I forget the word “pathogen” exists. 8 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode
What Is Oat Milk? And Where Did It Come From?
In the Field with Edible Brooklyn - January 25, 2019 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this final episode of the season, we unpack some mysteries of oat milk and explore a mystery of our own making: is there anything this post-cow drink can’t do? In the first half, we interview Anna Throne-Holst, president of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce, about Oatly's Scandinavia...
Dr. Tyler Jacks - Cancer Research Pioneer | Highly Cited (Ep. 5)
Highly Cited - January 16, 2019 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHearing how one of the world’s leading researchers on genetically engineered mouse models rises to success from his or her beginnings is a valuable experience for anyone pursuing the path of biomedical research. Transnetyx CEO, Bob Bean, sits down and interviews individuals impacting the world o...
Would You Drink Gene-Edited Orange Juice?
In the Field with Edible Brooklyn - January 11, 2019 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGMOs might be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about food and tech. They've been a contentious and emotional issue for decades now, and with new genetic engineering techniques like CRISPR entering the mainstream, keeping up is only getting more complicated. In this episode, we ...
Can Indoor Agriculture Really Transform Local Food?
In the Field with Edible Brooklyn - December 14, 2018 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsEarlier this year, our writer Rene Ebersole partnered with the Food and Environment Reporting Network to report on New York's growing indoor agriculture industry. Some-not-all of these businesses profess that they're posed to revolutionize local food, but as Rene found, that future's not so clea...
Dr. Brandon Cox - Pursuit of Restoring Hearing Function
Highly Cited - December 04, 2018 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Brandon Cox, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University. Her research is focused on hearing loss and regeneration of hair cells (or sound sensing cells) in the inner ear. Listen along as Brandon shares her passion for education at an early age, how she developed an am...
The World Has Enough Food to Feed Everyone—But We're Wasting It
In the Field with Edible Brooklyn - November 30, 2018 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe sit down with Bon Appétit's Brad Leone and Food Tank president Danielle Nierenberg to wrap our heads around the gargantuan global food waste problem while also learning some tips for how we can think about “waste” at home. We talk about the theater of grocery store abundance, freezers and why...
How Tech at Blue Hill and Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture Enhance the Human Element
In the Field with Edible Brooklyn - November 16, 2018 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFor our debut episode, we go to Blue Hill and Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture to learn how they view tech and innovation as ways to bring us closer to our food. We talk shop and taste surprising peppers with Stone Barns farm director Jack Algiere before going behind the scenes at Blue ...
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In the Field with Edible Brooklyn - October 30, 2018 18:03 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe first season of In the Field explores where food and technology meet. Join our host, Edible Brooklyn editor-in-chief Ariel Lauren Wilson, as we go inside Blue Hill restaurant and Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture—two beacons of sustainable food—to discover how they harness tech b...
Dr. Karl-Dimiter Bissig - Ping Pong Beginnings to Chimeric Livers | Highly Cited (Ep. 3)
Highly Cited - October 16, 2018 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Karl-Dimiter Bissig, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Better known as "Dimi," his lab focuses on all things surrounding liver research. From liver cancer to viral hepatitis to metabolic liver disorders, he is passionate about discovery and keeping a minds...
Dr. Steve Ramirez - Real-Life Inception | Highly Cited (Ep. 2)
Highly Cited - September 27, 2018 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Steve Ramirez, Ph.D, is a neuroscientist at Boston University. Known for being an eternal optimist, Steve recalls his childhood and parents being a pivotal part of his hard work ethic and gritty, positive spirit. He shares his beginnings in science, big moments in his young career he vividly ...
Dr. Christine Chio - The Currency of Inspiration | Highly Cited (Ep. 1)
Highly Cited - September 18, 2018 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Christine Chio, PhD, is an assistant professor at Columbia University. She studies pancreatic cancer and received her PhD from the University of Toronto. In this first episode of Highly Cited, we learn how Christine's love for science started at a young age, how an influential person inspir...
Highly Cited - Trailer | Highly Cited (Ep. 0)
Highly Cited - September 18, 2018 05:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn this trailer episode of Highly Cited Podcast, our host, Bob Bean, shares why this podcast was started and what he hopes to deliver with each interview episode. Highly Cited Podcast will interview amazing individuals in the field of life science research as they share their stories and philoso...
Genesis 6:1-4 – Return Of The Nephilim
Noah and the Nephilim // Pastor Gene Pensiero - August 23, 2017 17:22 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe have the truth about these subjects. We need to be ready to give nonbelievers a real, biblical answer – not ridicule them for asking about it (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 24:40-42 – Leftovers
Noah and the Nephilim // Pastor Gene Pensiero - August 16, 2017 17:12 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 33 ratingsThose who become believers during the seven-year Great Tribulation will want to be left behind at the Second Coming (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Genesis 6:4 & Matthew 24:38 – Tall Tales
Noah and the Nephilim // Pastor Gene Pensiero - August 02, 2017 18:43 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe hear, “eating and drinking,” and think of dinner out at a restaurant. Those same words to a Jew meant flesh-eating, blood-drinking Nephilim. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Genesis 6:4 – Promised Land Of Giants
Noah and the Nephilim // Pastor Gene Pensiero - July 12, 2017 17:10 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 33 ratingsThe Old Testament talks a lot about giants. What do we really know about them? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)