Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fight Infectious Diseases
In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming uncovered penicillin, an antibacterial compound that would alter the course of medicine. By the 1940s, this m...
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The Scientist Speaks
A podcast bringing you the stories behind news-worthy molecular biology research. From The Scientist‘s Creative Services Team.
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20 of 71 episodesThe Future of Gene Editing with Programmable Recombinases
Before CRISPR-based methods took center stage in the genome editing field, other bio-inspired tools such as zinc finger nucleases and Cre-lo...
Rise of the Nanorobots
For centuries, people have relied on materials such as concrete, steel, and wood for the construction of buildings, bridges, and other struc...
All the Feels: The Emerging Neuroscience of Gut Touch
Deep within the gut’s epithelial layer are specialized sensory cells that convert mechanical stimuli to electrical signals and convey this i...
From Development to Regeneration: The Power of Bioelectricity
Bioelectrical gradients guide embryonic development by creating an electrical scaffold for tissue and organ growth. Researchers harness the...
Circumventing Cancer Resistance
Traditional and new cancer therapies often become stymied due to tumor resistance, but why resistance arises and how to avoid it remain impo...
Advances in Cell Therapy for Restoring Vision
Retinal neurons derived from human stem cells are a promising source of replacement cells for regenerating damaged or diseased retinas. As s...
Smelling Illness: Volatile Organic Compounds as Neurological Disease Biomarkers
Early diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease is critical to slowing its progression. Long before neurological symptoms appear, patie...
Understanding the Role of Autophagy in Infectious Disease
Just like people declutter their homes to prevent the accumulation of broken or unwanted items, cells use autophagy to maintain homeostasis....
Linking Fasting to Health and the Gut Microbiome
Gut microbes affect humans in many ways, including altering the gastrointestinal tract’s function and influencing a person’s body weight, an...
Catch Me If You Can: Sequencing Screens for Rare Disease Genes
Rare diseases often remain undiagnosed due to unknown etiologies. In recent years, researchers have made headway in characterizing the molec...
Organoids in Space: The Next Frontier
Building miniature brains may sound like a page out of a science fiction novel, but fact is indeed stranger than fiction. Researchers around...
Science Philosophy in a Flash: Shifting Parturition Perspectives in Perinatology Research
As a maternal-fetal immunologist at the Washington University School of Medicine, Nardhy Gómez-López investigates the immunobiological pathw...
Understanding the Effects of Extrachromosomal DNA on Cancer
In the 1960s, researchers in England noticed an anomaly when investigating chromosomes from surgically removed human tumors. Distinct from t...
Science Philosophy in a Flash: Understanding the Symphony of Human Brain Development
As the Golub Family Professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University, Paola Arlotta seeks to understand how the human b...
Explainable AI for Rational Antibiotic Discovery
Researchers now employ artificial intelligence (AI) models based on deep learning to make functional predictions about big datasets. While t...
Natural Trip: Endogenous Psychedelics and Human Physiology
The field of psychedelics research has exploded in recent years, as scientists dig deeper into the neuroscience and pharmacology of hallucin...
Epigenetics in a Dish
Every cell within the human body contains the same DNA, but not all cells look and act alike. The key to cellular diversity lies in which ge...
Virtual Laboratories for Remote Benchwork and Breakthroughs
Cloud-based systems enable remote science experiments, allowing researchers to accomplish experimental breakthroughs from virtually any loca...
The Art and Science of Synthetic Biology
Researchers apply the principles of synthetic biology to address some of the most pressing human health challenges. In what some consider a...