This month GenePod explores clinical approaches to dealing with the difficult but inevitable problem of how to handle secondary (incidental) findings in genomic analysis.
this week: C. elegans, the neuroscientists’ favourite worm, has had all its brain cells mapped. Then researchers found 2 more. D’oh! What do they do and how were they missed? Plus: early human migration; simulating a tiny piece of brain on a huge computer; and using vultures as mobile weather stations.
Caffeine makes the adult world go round – but could it also be used as a therapy for premature babies? Several studies have suggested that in premature babies with breathing difficulties, caffeine could help stimulate them to breathe on their own and even have a positive effect on their brain development. But by contrast, a new study in Pediatric Research finds that a high dose of caffeine can have harmful effects.
This week: Air pollution deaths, sperm whale languages, climate scientists, hiding nanoparticles, using theatre to communicate the food crisis, detecting gravity waves and anti-venom stocks dwindle in Africa.
This week: Embracing neurodiversity, explaining dark matter, giant frozen viruses, plankton poop ice clouds, safeguarding against quantum hackers and Wikipedia courts scientists.
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