Humans all over the world are born with malformations regardless of their particular ethnicity or ancestry, but the medical literature and the resources currently available depicting human malformation have been heavily slanted towards patients with western European ancestry. Maximilian Muenke and colleagues have now begun to remedy this deficiency in the medical literature with a global atlas of human malformation. Listen to GenePod, Genetics in Medicine's podcast, for the story behind this important new reference.

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In the podcast this week, the genetics behind a textbook case of evolution, Earth's core conundrum, and Pluto's polygonal surface.

In the podcast this week, how clouds form, a Neanderthal construction project, and comparing the meerkats.

In the podcast this week, treasures from sunken cities, new antibiotics made from scratch, a cheap Zika test, and experimenting with history.

In the podcast this week, the Zika virus and birth defects, colliding quasi-particles, and combatting sprawling networks of spam

In the podcast this week, the value of failed experiments, ketamine without side effects, and our brains’ energy demands.

In the podcast this week, a language map of the brain, listening for landslides a year after the Nepal quake, and the Soviet internet that never was.

In the podcast this week, the 1.5 degree temperature target, what to do when climate change ruins your research and ‘dirty mice’.

Lately, scientists have begun to pay closer attention to the numbers of men and women who present at scientific meetings. Even in those fields where women are a majority, men dominate speaking roles; in 2011, a group of leaders in neuroscience fields decided to remedy this situation. By the 2015 annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, women made up 70% of the plenary speaking roles. Listen to this month's Brainpod to hear Dr. Bita Moghaddam and Dr. Raquel Gur discuss the importance of women at the podium, how their approach was successful, and what challenges still remain.

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"Impact of Stress on the Brain: Pathology, Treatment and Prevention," the 2016 issue of Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews, focuses on advances in our understanding of the impact of stress on the brain: From pathology to circuits, treatment to prevention. Emerging data from genetics, epigenetics, neural circuit and intergenerational models, animal models, and neuroimaging all suggest that stress affects the brain in a variety of dynamic and often long-lasting ways. The effects of these processes on developmental risk for pathology are particularly notable.

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