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A podcast bringing you the stories behind news-worthy molecular biology research. From The Scientist‘s Creative Services Team.
In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming uncovered penicillin, an antibacterial compound that would alter the course of medicine. By the 1940s, this m...
Before CRISPR-based methods took center stage in the genome editing field, other bio-inspired tools such as zinc finger nucleases and Cre-lo...
For centuries, people have relied on materials such as concrete, steel, and wood for the construction of buildings, bridges, and other struc...
Deep within the gut’s epithelial layer are specialized sensory cells that convert mechanical stimuli to electrical signals and convey this i...
Bioelectrical gradients guide embryonic development by creating an electrical scaffold for tissue and organ growth. Researchers harness the...
Traditional and new cancer therapies often become stymied due to tumor resistance, but why resistance arises and how to avoid it remain impo...
Retinal neurons derived from human stem cells are a promising source of replacement cells for regenerating damaged or diseased retinas. As s...
Early diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease is critical to slowing its progression. Long before neurological symptoms appear, patie...
Just like people declutter their homes to prevent the accumulation of broken or unwanted items, cells use autophagy to maintain homeostasis....
Gut microbes affect humans in many ways, including altering the gastrointestinal tract’s function and influencing a person’s body weight, an...
Rare diseases often remain undiagnosed due to unknown etiologies. In recent years, researchers have made headway in characterizing the molec...
Building miniature brains may sound like a page out of a science fiction novel, but fact is indeed stranger than fiction. Researchers around...
As a maternal-fetal immunologist at the Washington University School of Medicine, Nardhy Gómez-López investigates the immunobiological pathw...
In the 1960s, researchers in England noticed an anomaly when investigating chromosomes from surgically removed human tumors. Distinct from t...
As the Golub Family Professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University, Paola Arlotta seeks to understand how the human b...
Researchers now employ artificial intelligence (AI) models based on deep learning to make functional predictions about big datasets. While t...
The field of psychedelics research has exploded in recent years, as scientists dig deeper into the neuroscience and pharmacology of hallucin...
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...
Cloud-based systems enable remote science experiments, allowing researchers to accomplish experimental breakthroughs from virtually any loca...
Researchers apply the principles of synthetic biology to address some of the most pressing human health challenges. In what some consider a...
As bioengineers incorporate smart technology into more aspects of the scientific process, these updates promise to digitize and automate lab...
Fecal transplantation is an established procedure for controlling recurrent Clostridium difficile infection by replenishing healthy bacteria...
Xitiz Chamling is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. From vision research to the pursui...
Disease-relevant molecules that cannot be pharmacologically targeted are sometimes referred to as undruggable, and in cancer, a number of pr...
Jie Sun is a professor in Infectious Diseases and International Medicine at University of Virginia School of Medicine and associate director...
David Liu is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. Liu’s lab has introduced breakthrough te...
Claire Higgins is reader in the department of bioengineering at Imperial College London. Her philosophy of science involves a problem-solvin...
Scientists often refer to DNA as the blueprint of a cell. Whether the genetic material is single stranded or double stranded, linear or circ...
Most mammals communicate vocally but humans are unique in their ability to communicate using spoken language. Humans are not born with an in...
Neurodegenerative disorders progressively impair a patient’s ability to function. Scientists expect the prevalence of these conditions to in...
Jennifer Munson is an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. Her overarching resear...
Jukka Koskela, a senior researcher at the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, studies the complex genetics of various diseases, includ...
Despite the genetic basis of healthy aging, diet plays an important role in preventing inflammation, diabetes, and cognitive decline. Yet, h...
Paul George, an assistant professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University, taps into the bioelectrical language of t...
As humans age, cells often acquire defects that lead to cancer. However, this fate may not be set in stone, as certain animals can circumven...
To regulate protein production, cells use sophisticated strategies to keep RNA levels in check. This balance is especially important for hor...
Welcome to Science Philosophy in a Flash, a mini podcast series produced by The Scientist’s Creative Services Team. In this series, we highl...
Sequencing the human genome in the early 2000s was an incredible feat, but the sequence was incomplete. Recently, a consortium of researcher...
Welcome to Science Philosophy in a Flash, a mini podcast series produced by The Scientist’s Creative Services Team. In this series, we highl...
Scientists have known for a long time that microbes can take up extracellular DNA fragments, and they have leveraged this transformation pro...
Welcome to Science Philosophy in a Flash, a mini podcast series produced by The Scientist’s Creative Services Team. In this series, we highl...
Welcome to Science Philosophy in a Flash, a mini podcast series produced by The Scientist’s Creative Services Team. In this series, we highl...
Staphylococcus aureus is a versatile pathogen that infects many areas of the body and has a number of strategies for avoiding the immune res...
Viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 are constantly evolving to better infect their hosts. The appearance of new variants often diminish...
To understand how the gut perceives and communicates information to the brain, scientists are taking a deeper look at the sensory cells lini...
In search for strategies to curb pandemics, scientists strive to understand how pathogens slip past the immune system and wreak havoc on the...
The cell is a fundamental unit of life that is capable of metabolism, synthesizing biological molecules, harnessing energy, and replicating....
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions, affecting over 65 million individuals worldwide, and is characterized by recurre...
As neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease wreak havoc on the brain and on our aging society, scientists rac...
As we know, far too well, infectious disease pandemics have the power to reshape the world. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are observin...