Science to the Tea

Science to the Tea

By Skye SmithScience
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Science to the Tea episodes

  • Shell Yeah: Using Food Waste to Clean Water

    In this week's tea-riffic episode, researchers use blue mussel shells to clean polluted water!

    Paper referenced: "Hard to Soft: Biogenic Absorbent Sponge-like Material from Waste Mussel Shells"

    (Ending music by Wataboi from Pixabay)

    10 min
  • Neuro Nets

    In this week's tea-riffic episode, our guest Deidre O'Dell shares with us her recently published paper!

    Paper referenced: "Disruption of rat deep cerebellar perineuronal net alters eyeblink conditioning and neuronal electrophysiology"

    (Ending music by Wataboi from Pixabay)

    23 min
  • Peak Experience
    In this week's tea-riffic episode, researchers scale Mt. Everest in search of microplastic pollution!
    Papers Referenced: “Reaching New Heights in Plastic Pollution—Preliminary Findings of Microplastics on Mount Everest”
    “Microplastic pollution, a threat to marine ecosystem and human health: a short review”
    “Toxicity of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Mammalian Systems”
    7 min
  • Tri Tri Again

    In this week's tea-riffic episode, researchers use arsenic trioxide to treat cancer!

    Paper referenced: "Arsenic Trioxide Rescues Structural p53 Mutations through a Cryptic Allosteric Site"

    9 min
  • Sheep Thrills

    In this week's tea-riffic episode, researchers develop a vaccine to fight parasites in sheep!


    Paper referenced: "Effective Nanoparticle-Based Nasal Vaccine Against Latent and Congenital Toxoplasmosis in Sheep"

    8 min
  • Tea-riffic Effects of Green Tea

    In this week's tea-riffic episode, researchers test the effects of green tea on Huntington's disease! 


    Papers referenced: "Green tea and cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a review of the current epidemiological evidence"

    "Green tea infusion alleviates neurodegeneration induced by mutant Huntingtin in Drosophila"

    11 min
  • Have A Tree-mendously Good Holiday
    In this week's tea-riffic episode, researchers use bacteria to help Christmas trees grow!
    Paper referenced: "Identification of Root-Associated Bacteria That Influence Plant Physiology, Increase Seed Germination, or Promote Growth of the Christmas Tree Species Abies nordmanniana"
    10 min
  • Soy What?! Soybeans and Your Brain

    In this week's tea-riffic episode, researchers explore the effects of genistein on Alzheimer's disease!

    Paper 1: "Involvement of α7nAChR in the Protective Effects of Genistein Against β‑Amyloid‑Induced Oxidative Stress in Neurons via a PI3K/Akt/Nrf2 Pathway‑Related Mechanism"

    Paper 2: "Autophagy-dependent mechanism of genistein-mediated elimination of behavioral and biochemical defects in the rat model of sporadic Alzheimer's disease"

    10 min

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In this podcast, we will discuss all of the wonders of science while sipping on some of my favorite teas. Two in one deal, really. Here you will find a wide range of scientific topics and complex…