After decades of trying, scientists coax plastic particles into a diamond-like structure
Coaxing tiny colloid particles into a diamond structure, and manipulating cell death and homeostasis in neurodegenerative disease.In this episode:00:45 Creating colloidal crystalsFor decades, researchers have attempted to create crystals with a diamond-like structure using tiny colloid particles. Now, a team thinks they’ve cracked it, which could open the door for new optical technologies. Research Article: He et al.07:50 CoronapodRapid antigen tests for coronavirus have been described in some circles as ‘game changers’ in the fight against COVID-19. We discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and how they could fit i...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
After decades of trying, scientists coax plastic particles into a diamond-like structure
Coaxing tiny colloid particles into a diamond structure, and manipulating cell death and homeostasis in neurodegenerative disease.In this episode:00:45 Creating colloidal crystalsFor decades, researchers have attempted to create crystals with a diamond-like structure using tiny colloid particles. Now, a team thinks they’ve cracked it, which could open the door for new optical technologies. Research Article: He et al.07:50 CoronapodRapid antigen tests for coronavirus have been described in some circles as ‘game changers’ in the fight against COVID-19. We discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and how they could fit i...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 484: Float like a mimivirus STING like a bat
The TWiVumvirate discuss the giant Tupanvirus, with the longest tail in the known virosphere, and dampened STING dependent interferon activation in bats. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Tailed giant Tupanvirus (Nat Commun) Soda Lakes (Wikipedia) Dampened STING in bats (Cell Host Microbe) Image credit Letters read on TWiV 484 Weekly Science Picks Kathy - How to read a phylogenetic tree Brianne - No immune overload for vaccines Dickson - Flowchart of viral families Alan - Letters to a Pre-Sci...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 11, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Backchat: March 2017
A sting operation finds several predatory journals offered to employ a fictional, unqualified academic as an editor. Plus, the Great Barrier Reef in hot water, and trying to explain 'time crystals'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - March 23, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Backchat: March 2017
A sting operation finds several predatory journals offered to employ a fictional, unqualified academic as an editor. Plus, the Great Barrier Reef in hot water, and trying to explain 'time crystals'. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - March 23, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Backchat: March 2017
A sting operation finds several predatory journals offered to employ a fictional, unqualified academic as an editor. Plus, the Great Barrier Reef in hot water, and trying to explain 'time crystals'. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - March 23, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 353: STING and the antiviral police
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVniacs discuss twenty-eight years of poliovirus shedding by an immunodeficient patient, and packaging of the innate cytoplasmic signaling molecule cyclic GMP-AMP in virus particles.
Links for this episode
28 years of poliovirus shedding (PLoS Path)
NOT a rare poliovirus (Wash Post)
Ukraine polio outbreak (ProMedMail)
Virus particle transfer of cGAMP (Science one, two)
cGAS on TWiV 222
Image credit
Letters read on TWiV 353
This episode is sponsored by AS...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 6, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Backchat: March 2017
A sting operation finds several predatory journals offered to employ a fictional, unqualified academic as an editor. Plus, the Great Barrier Reef in hot water, and trying to explain 'time crystals'. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - January 26, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts
Interventions for the symptoms and signs resulting from jellyfish stings
Whether it happens where we live, work or go on holiday, being stung by jellyfish is a painful, frightening and potentially life-threatening experience. Many of us will have heard of various remedies and, as of December 2013, there’s a Cochrane Review of the evidence. Richard McGee from the School of Public Health in the University of Sydney in Australia tells us more. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - January 27, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Cochrane Collaboration Tags: Issue 10 to 12, October to December 2013 Source Type: podcasts
Sting in the tale
This week we find out the best way to treat a Mesobuthus tamulus (indian red scorpion) sting. We also discuss the current state of healthcare in Iraq; and how Andrew Wakefield ’s article linking the MMR vaccine and autism was not bad science, but deliberate fraud. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Sting in the tale
This week we find out the best way to treat a Mesobuthus tamulus (indian red scorpion) sting. We also discuss the current state of healthcare in Iraq; and how Andrew Wakefield’s article linking the MMR vaccine and autism was not bad science, but deliberate fraud. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Blistering skin
Dr Belinda Welsh discusses the causes and clinical features of a variety of bullous skin rashes. Belinda discusses distinguishing features such as blister location, presence of mucosal involvement or whether the blisters are tense and intact (indicating dermal blistering) or fragile (indicating superficial blistering). Most presentations to GPs will be the result of infection, topical contact reaction, insect bites or drug reactions. However, if common conditions such as these are excluded, then often histology and immunofluoresence is required for diagnosis. (Belinda discussed the techniques for biopsy for both histology ...
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - June 30, 2009 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
