A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair
What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticityFirst up this week, Online News Editor Michael Price and host Sarah Crespi talk about a large genome sequencing project in India that reveals past migrations in the region and a unique intermixing with Neanderthals in ancient times. Next on the show, producer Kevin McLean chats with Matthew Tierney, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, about how vitamin A and stem cells work together to grow hair and heal wounds. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast A...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 7, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India ’s women in science
Why farmers might want shorter corn, and the latest in our series on books on sex, gender, and science
First up on this week’s show, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about why it might make sense to grow shorter corn. It turns out the towering corn typically grown today is more likely to blow over in strong winds and can’t be planted very densely. Now, seedmakers are testing out new ways to make corn short through conventional breeding and transgenic techniques in the hopes of increasing yields.
Next up on the show, the last in our series of books on sex and gender with Books Host An...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 26, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India ’s women in science
First up on this week’s show, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about why it might make sense to grow shorter corn. It turns out the towering corn typically grown today is more likely to blow over in strong winds and can’t be planted very densely. Now, seedmakers are testing out new ways to make corn short through conventional breeding and transgenic techniques in the hopes of increasing yields. Next up on the show, the last in our series of books on sex and gender with Books Host Angela Saini. In this installment, Angela speaks with Nandita Jayaraj and Aashima Dogra about their book Lab Hoppi...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 26, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’
A book on utopias and gender roles, India looks to beat climate-induced heat in cities, and how ancient Amazonians improved the soil
First up on this week’s show: the latest in our series of books on sex, gender, and science. Books host Angela Saini discusses Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home with ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee, professor of Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. See this year’s whole series here.
Also this week, as part of a special issue on climate change and health, host Sarah Crespi speaks with Vaishnavi Chandrashe...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’
A book on utopias and gender roles, India looks to beat climate-induced heat in cities, and how ancient Amazonians improved the soil
First up on this week’s show: the latest in our series of books on sex, gender, and science. Books host Angela Saini discusses Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home with ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee, professor of Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. See this year’s whole series here.
Also this week, as part of a special issue on climate change and health, host Sarah Crespi speaks with Vaishnavi Chandrashe...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Physicists finally observe strange isotope Oxygen 28 – raising fundamental questions
In this episode:00:47 First observation of oxygen 28Oxygen 28 is an isotope of oxygen with 20 neutrons and eight protons. This strange isotope has long been sought after by physicists, as its proposed unusual properties would allow them to put their theories of how atomic nuclei work to the test. Now, after decades of experiments physicists believe they have observed oxygen 28. The observations are at odds with theory predictions, so they imply that there’s a lot more physicists don’t know about the forces that hold atomic nuclei together.Research article: Kondo et al.News and Views: Heaviest oxygen isotope is found to...
Source: Nature Podcast - August 30, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
JAMA Psychiatry : Disparities in Telehealth Use for Mental Health Care Among American Indian/Alaska Native Veterans
Interview with Jay Shore, MD, MPH, author of Rural-Urban Disparities in Video Telehealth Use During Rapid Mental Health Care Virtualization Among American Indian/Alaska Native Veterans. Hosted by John Torous, MD. Related Content: Rural-Urban Disparities in Video Telehealth Use During Rapid Mental Health Care Virtualization Among American Indian/Alaska Native Veterans (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - July 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Disrupting snail food-chain curbs parasitic disease in Senegal
In this episode:00:45 A sustainable solution for schistosomiasis controlSchistosomiasis is a serious parasitic disease that affects millions of people, who become infected when they come into contact with contaminated water. To prevent the spread and reinfection of this disease, researchers trialled an environmental intervention that removed plants from lakes in Senegal. These plants act as food for freshwater snails – intermediate hosts for the disease. Results showed that this reduced disease levels, and that the plants could be composted to increase agricultural yields, suggesting this approach could be used to improv...
Source: Nature Podcast - July 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Physician as Writer: Abraham Verghese Reflects on the Art of the Craft of Writing Fiction
The Covenant of Water, Stanford University professor Dr Abraham Verghese’s long-awaited follow-up to his 2009 novel Cutting for Stone, traces the lives of a family in southern India negotiating forces of history, fate, and a genetic condition that takes the life of a member in each generation by drowning. In part 2, JAMA Arts and Medicine Section Editor Michael Berkwits, MD, MSCE, talks with Dr Verghese about the craft of writing fiction, the role of the humanities in medicine, of artificial intelligence in literature, and more. Related Content: “The Art of the Craft,” From The Covenant of Water The Covenant of Water...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - May 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
The Covenant of Water – Reflections on Fiction, the Humanities, and Medicine
The Covenant of Water, Stanford University professor Dr Abraham Verghese’s long-awaited follow-up to his 2009 novel Cutting for Stone, traces the lives of a family in southern India negotiating forces of history, fate, and a genetic condition that takes the life of a member in each generation by drowning. JAMA Arts and Medicine Section Editor Michael Berkwits, MD, MSCE, talks with Dr Verghese about the novel’s clinical insights, the craft of writing fiction, the role of the humanities in medicine, of artificial intelligence in literature, and more. Related Content: “The Art of the Craft,” From The Covenant of Water...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - May 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Periodic change of body position under phototherapy in term and preterm neonates with hyperbilirubinaemia
Some new-born babies suffer from jaundice and there are several Cochrane reviews of possible ways to treat it, including the use of phototherapy. These reviews were added to in March 2022 with a new review of the effects of changing the baby ’s position under the phototherapy. Lead author, Anu Thukral from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences tells us about the findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - October 13, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India
On this week’s show: A shortage of tritium fuel may leave fusion energy with an empty tank, and an attempt to improve police responsiveness to violence against women
First up this week on the podcast, Staff Writer Daniel Clery talks with host Sarah Crespi about a new hurdle for fusion: not enough fuel. After decades of delays, scientists are almost ready to turn on the first fusion reactor that makes more energy than it uses, but the fast-decaying fuel needed to run the reactor is running out.
Also this week, we highlight an intervention aimed at increasing police responsiveness to gender-based violence in India. Sandi...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 7, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India
On this week’s show: A shortage of tritium fuel may leave fusion energy with an empty tank, and an attempt to improve police responsiveness to violence against women
First up this week on the podcast, Staff Writer Daniel Clery talks with host Sarah Crespi about a new hurdle for fusion: not enough fuel. After decades of delays, scientists are almost ready to turn on the first fusion reactor that makes more energy than it uses, but the fast-decaying fuel needed to run the reactor is running out.
Also this week, we highlight an intervention aimed at increasing police responsiveness to gender-based violence in India. Sandi...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 7, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Covid and conflict In South Asia
In this second podcast focussing on the covid response in South Asia, we ’re focussing on the intersection of conflict and covid in the region. The pandemic has highlighted the underlying weaknesses in many health systems - but could it also be used as a catalyst for change, and be a step towards easing tensions?
To discuss this, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of Th e BMJ, is joined by Zulfiqar Bhutta, head of the Institute for Global Health and Development, Aga Khan University, and Arun Mitra senior vice president of Indian Doctors for Peace& Development.
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Conflict, extremism, resilience and peace in So...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Covid and conflict In South Asia
In this second podcast focussing on the covid response in South Asia, we’re focussing on the intersection of conflict and covid in the region. The pandemic has highlighted the underlying weaknesses in many health systems - but could it also be used as a catalyst for change, and be a step towards easing tensions?
To discuss this, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ, is joined by Zulfiqar Bhutta, head of the Institute for Global Health and Development, Aga Khan University, and Arun Mitra senior vice president of Indian Doctors for Peace & Development.
To read more;
Conflict, extremism, resilience and peace in Sout...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
