Our podcast highlights of 2020
The Nature Podcast team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.In this episode:00:32 Following the Viking footprint across EuropeIn September, we heard about the researchers mapping ancient genomes to better understand who the Vikings were, and where they went.Nature Podcast: 16 September 2020Research Article: Margaryan et al.08:09 Mars hopesIn July, the UAE launched its first mission to Mars. We spoke to the mission leads to learn about the aims of the project, and how they developed the mission in under six years.Nature Podcast: 08 July 2020News Feature: How a small Arab nation built a Mars missio...
Source: Nature Podcast - December 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Our podcast highlights of 2020
The Nature Podcast team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.In this episode:00:32 Following the Viking footprint across EuropeIn September, we heard about the researchers mapping ancient genomes to better understand who the Vikings were, and where they went.Nature Podcast: 16 September 2020Research Article: Margaryan et al.08:09 Mars hopesIn July, the UAE launched its first mission to Mars. We spoke to the mission leads to learn about the aims of the project, and how they developed the mission in under six years.Nature Podcast: 08 July 2020News Feature: How a small Arab nation built a Mars missio...
Source: Nature Podcast - December 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Coronapod: The big COVID research papers of 2020
Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker and Traci Watson discuss some of 2020's most significant coronavirus research papers.In the final Coronapod of 2020, we dive into the scientific literature to reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have discovered so much about SARS-CoV-2 – information that has been vital for public health responses and the rapid development of effective vaccines. But we also look forward to 2021, and the critical questions that remain to be answered about the pandemic.Papers discussedA Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019 - New England Journal of Medicine, 24 JanuaryClinical ...
Source: Nature Podcast - December 17, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Could you prevent a pandemic? A very 2020 video game
A video game provides players with insights into pandemic responses, and our annual festive fun.In this episode:01:02 Balancing responses in a video game pandemicIn the strategy video-game Plague Inc: The Cure, players assume the role of an omnipotent global health agency trying to tackle outbreaks of increasingly nasty pathogens. We find out how the game was developed, and how it might help change public perception of pandemic responses.Plague Inc: The Cure from Ndemic Creations10:02 “We three Spacecraft travel to Mars”The first of our festive songs, we head back to July this year, and the launch of three separate spa...
Source: Nature Podcast - December 16, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Could you prevent a pandemic? A very 2020 video game
A video game provides players with insights into pandemic responses, and our annual festive fun.In this episode:01:02 Balancing responses in a video game pandemicIn the strategy video-game Plague Inc: The Cure, players assume the role of an omnipotent global health agency trying to tackle outbreaks of increasingly nasty pathogens. We find out how the game was developed, and how it might help change public perception of pandemic responses.Plague Inc: The Cure from Ndemic Creations10:02 “We three Spacecraft travel to Mars”The first of our festive songs, we head back to July this year, and the launch of three separate spa...
Source: Nature Podcast - December 16, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
The COVID Tracking Project
, launched by The Atlantic, collects and publishes data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the US, including data on race and ethnicity needed to understand health inequities in the outbreak. Atlantic Monthly journalists Alexis C. Madrigal and Erin Kissane join JAMA's Q&A series to describe the project and their experience developing a database for fact-based health reporting on the pandemic. Recorded December 10, 2020. (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - December 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Calum Semple - the efficacy of mass testing in Liverpool
The government has decided to pursue a strategy of mass-testing in Liverpool, in a pilot to see what effect that has on containment of corona virus.
A lot of criticism has been levelled at the scheme, from the sensitivity of the lateral flow test used, to whether this is screening and should be referred to the national screening committee to be evaluated.
Calum Semple, professor of child health and outbreak medicine at the University of Liv erpool is evaluating the project, and joins us to explain what we can understand from this - how initial data shows the new testing regime is reaching more of the population, and why...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Calum Semple - the efficacy of mass testing in Liverpool
The government has decided to pursue a strategy of mass-testing in Liverpool, in a pilot to see what effect that has on containment of corona virus.
A lot of criticism has been levelled at the scheme, from the sensitivity of the lateral flow test used, to whether this is screening and should be referred to the national screening committee to be evaluated.
Calum Semple, professor of child health and outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool is evaluating the project, and joins us to explain what we can understand from this - how initial data shows the new testing regime is reaching more of the population, and why h...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 678: Fishing for viruses with Nels Elde
Nels joins TWiV to reveal the discovery of a picornavirus of zebrafish by measuring immune responses in the host, genome sequence analysis of the White House COVID-19 outbreak, and a six-fold higher SARS-CoV-2 exposure rate than reported cases in German children. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Nels Elde Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Zebrafish virus discovery by visualization (Curr Biol) Viral genome sequencing of White House COVID-19 outbreak (medRxiv) Genetic signature of virus that may have infected Trump (N...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - November 5, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
A new way to cool computer chips — from within
Keeping electronics from overheating, and how to include minority populations in genetic analyses.In this episode:00:46 Cool computersKeeping components cool is a major hurdle when it comes to increasing electronic power. This week, we find out about a new way to integrate tiny microfluidic channels directly into circuits, to help keep them cool. Research Article: van Erp et al.06:57 CoronapodBy comparing coronavirus genomes taken from people around the world, researchers are getting an idea of how SARS-CoV-2 is changing as it spreads. We discuss a particular genetic mutation that rapidly became dominant early in the pande...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 9, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
A new way to cool computer chips - from within
Keeping electronics from overheating, and how to include minority populations in genetic analyses.In this episode:00:46 Cool computersKeeping components cool is a major hurdle when it comes to increasing electronic power. This week, we find out about a new way to integrate tiny microfluidic channels directly into circuits, to help keep them cool. Research Article: van Erp et al.06:57 CoronapodBy comparing coronavirus genomes taken from people around the world, researchers are getting an idea of how SARS-CoV-2 is changing as it spreads. We discuss a particular genetic mutation that rapidly became dominant early in the pande...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 9, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
A new way to cool computer chips — from within
Keeping electronics from overheating, and how to include minority populations in genetic analyses.In this episode:00:46 Cool computersKeeping components cool is a major hurdle when it comes to increasing electronic power. This week, we find out about a new way to integrate tiny microfluidic channels directly into circuits, to help keep them cool. Research Article: van Erp et al.06:57 CoronapodBy comparing coronavirus genomes taken from people around the world, researchers are getting an idea of how SARS-CoV-2 is changing as it spreads. We discuss a particular genetic mutation that rapidly became dominant early in the pande...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 9, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Coronavirus Update From the CDC – August 20, 2020
CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, discusses recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and US response, including prospects for dual outbreaks of COVID-19 and influenza in the fall and winter. Related Article(s): Addressing Influenza Vaccination Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - August 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
