Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
First this week, freelance journalist Ian Graber-Stiehl discusses what might be the oldest community science project—observing the emergence of periodical cicadas. He also notes the shifts in how amateur scientists have gone from contributing observations to helping scientists make predictions about the insects’ schedules.
Next, Jason Chin, program leader at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, discusses how reducing redundancy in the genetic code opens up space for encoding unusual amino acids. His group shows that eliminating certain codes from the ge...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
First this week, freelance journalist Ian Graber-Stiehl discusses what might be the oldest community science project—observing the emergence of periodical cicadas. He also notes the shifts in how amateur scientists have gone from contributing observations to helping scientists make predictions about the insects’ schedules. Next, Jason Chin, program leader at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, discusses how reducing redundancy in the genetic code opens up space for encoding unusual amino acids. His group shows that eliminating certain codes from the genome makes bacteria that are resist...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
First this week, freelance journalist Ian Graber-Stiehl discusses what might be the oldest community science project—observing the emergence of periodical cicadas. He also notes the shifts in how amateur scientists have gone from contributing observations to helping scientists make predictions about the insects’ schedules.
Next, Jason Chin, program leader at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, discusses how reducing redundancy in the genetic code opens up space for encoding unusual amino acids. His group shows that eliminating certain codes from the genome makes bacteria that are res...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
First this week, freelance journalist Ian Graber-Stiehl discusses what might be the oldest community science project—observing the emergence of periodical cicadas. He also notes the shifts in how amateur scientists have gone from contributing observations to helping scientists make predictions about the insects’ schedules.
Next, Jason Chin, program leader at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, discusses how reducing redundancy in the genetic code opens up space for encoding unusual amino acids. His group shows that eliminating certain codes from the genome makes bacteria that are resis...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 28, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations —instead of pumping health-harming chemicals into the air, they are now being dumped into oceans. Also this week, William Brune, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, talks about flying a plane into thunderstorms and how measurements fr om research flights revealed the surprising amount of air-cleaning oxidants created by lightning. In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations—instead of pumping health-harming chemicals into the air, they are now being dumped into oceans.
Also this week, William Brune, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, talks about flying a plane into thunderstorms and how measurements from research flights revealed the surprising amount of air-cleaning oxidants created by lightning.
In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations—instead of pumping health-harming chemicals into the air, they are now being dumped into oceans.
Also this week, William Brune, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, talks about flying a plane into thunderstorms and how measurements from research flights revealed the surprising amount of air-cleaning oxidants created by lightning.
In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations —instead of pumping health-harming chemicals into the air, they are now being dumped into oceans.
Also this week, William Brune, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, talks about flying a plane into thunderstorms and how measurements f rom research flights revealed the surprising amount of air-cleaning oxidants created by lightning.
In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Se...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 7, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 740: Complementation will get you everywhere
The Guardians of the TWiV-o-verse discuss the process of codon deoptimization for the production of experimental infectious attenuated viral vaccines, and how a respiratory syncytial virus with 619 base changes was rescued by genomes with very large internal deletions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode NIDO 2021 Symposium ASV hosts free COVID-19 Vaccine Education Town Halls (register here) Research position in Spindler laboratory Attenuation of poliovirus...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 8, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate
Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and the director of the University of Florida Biodiversity Institute, about how natural collections at museums can be a valuable resource for understanding future disease outbreaks. Read the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Biological Collections: Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century. This segment is part of our coverage of the 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting.
Also on this week’s show, Katharina Schmack, a research ass...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 1, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate
Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and the director of the University of Florida Biodiversity Institute, about how natural collections at museums can be a valuable resource for understanding future disease outbreaks. Read the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Biological Collections: Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century. This segment is part of our coverage of the 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting.
Also on this week’s show, Katharina Schmack, a research...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 1, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate
Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and the director of the University of Florida Biodiversity Institute, about how natural collections at museums can be a valuable resource for understanding future disease outbreaks. Read the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Biological Collections: Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century. This segment is part of our coverage of the 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting. Also on this week ’s show, Katharina Schmack, a research ass...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 1, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate
Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and the director of the University of Florida Biodiversity Institute, about how natural collections at museums can be a valuable resource for understanding future disease outbreaks. Read the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Biological Collections: Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century. This segment is part of our coverage of the 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting.
Also on this week’s show, Katharina Schmack, a research as...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 31, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 705: Rocky Mountain COVID with Emily Travanty
Emily Travanty from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment joins TWiV to discuss how her laboratory was the first in the US to detect the SARS-CoV-2 variant VOC 202012/01. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Guest: Emily Travanty Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode VOC detected in Colorado (WaPo) US has sequenced only 50,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes (CDC) Human CoV evolves to escape immunity (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Randal Despommier on saxophone...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 10, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
