A cryo –electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia
Structural biologists rejoiced when cryo–electron microscopy, a technique to generate highly detailed models of biomolecules, emerged. But years after its release, researchers still face long queues to access these machines. Science’s European News Editor Eric Hand walks host Meagan Cantwell through the journey of a group of researchers to create a cheaper, more accessible alternative.
Also this week, host Joel Goldberg speaks with psychiatrist and researcher Goodman Sibeko, who worked with the Xhosa people of South Africa to help illuminate genetic details of schizophrenia.
Though scientists have examined this s...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
A cryo –electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia
Structural biologists rejoiced when cryo –electron microscopy, a technique to generate highly detailed models of biomolecules, emerged. But years after its release, researchers still face long queues to access these machines. Science’s European News Editor Eric Hand walks host Meagan Cantwell through the journey of a group of researche rs to create a cheaper, more accessible alternative. Also this week, host Joel Goldberg speaks with psychiatrist and researcher Goodman Sibeko, who worked with the Xhosa people of South Africa to help illuminate genetic details of schizophrenia. Though scientists have examined this subj...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
A cryo –electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia
Structural biologists rejoiced when cryo –electron microscopy, a technique to generate highly detailed models of biomolecules, emerged. But years after its release, researchers still face long queues to access these machines. Science’s European News Editor Eric Hand walks host Meagan Cantwell through the journey of a group of researche rs to create a cheaper, more accessible alternative.
Also this week, host Joel Goldberg speaks with psychiatrist and researcher Goodman Sibeko, who worked with the Xhosa people of South Africa to help illuminate genetic details of schizophrenia. Though scientists have examined this sub...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 29, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Government regulation, training, or co-ordination of private for-profit health care in low- and middle-income countries
Alongside the thousands of Cochrane Reviews of the effects of treatments, are some that look at the effectiveness of different ways of organising and paying for health care. In a new Cochrane Review from August 2016, Charles Wiysonge from the Cochrane South Africa at the South African Medical Research Council in South Africa and colleagues examined the evidence for public stewardship of private for-profit healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries. He tells us what they found in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - February 1925
Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate – not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014] (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - February 10, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - February 1925
Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate – not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - February 10, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - February 1925
Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate – not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014] For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - February 10, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
The ethics of placebo
In a clinical trial, we usually think of risk in terms of the new active compound - will it have unwanted effects. However, two analyses in The BMJ are concerned about the risk associated with the control arm.
Robin Emsley is a professor of psychiatry at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, he and colleagues have written about the risk... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The ethics of placebo
In a clinical trial, we usually think of risk in terms of the new active compound - will it have unwanted effects. However, two analyses in The BMJ are concerned about the risk associated with the control arm.
Robin Emsley is a professor of psychiatry at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, he and colleagues have written about the risk associated with forgoing treatment in patients with schizophrenia.
Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4728
Jonathan Mendel, lecturer in human geography at the University of Dundee, and Ben Goldacre, senior clinical research fellow at the University of Oxford, ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: Ending AIDS in South Africa, what makes plants gamble, and genes that turn on after death
Listen to stories on how plants know when to take risks, confirmation that the ozone layer is on the mend, and genes that come alive after death, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Science news writer Jon Cohen talks with Julia Rosen about South Africa’s bid to end AIDS. [Image: J.Seita/Flickr/Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 30, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: Ending AIDS in South Africa, what makes plants gamble, and genes that turn on after death
Listen to stories on how plants know when to take risks, confirmation that the ozone layer is on the mend, and genes that come alive after death, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Science news writer Jon Cohen talks with Julia Rosen about South Africa’s bid to end AIDS. [Image: J.Seita/Flickr/Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 30, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
The Lancet: October 03, 2014
Discussion of a Series on fertility preservation, and an interview with Glenda Gray, new President of South Africa's Medical Research Council. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - October 3, 2014 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
SCCM Pod-234: Pediatric Intensive Care in South Africa: Making Optimum Use of Limited Resources
Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Andrew Argent, MD, Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the Red Cross War Memorial Childrens Hospital. (Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care)
Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care - January 30, 2014 Category: Intensive Care Authors: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Tags: Medicine Source Type: podcasts
