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  • Flu, Cannabis and HIV
    In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about influenza pandemics, eating too much, cannabis and the brain, HIV cure research, and the evolution of sea squirts... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    31 min
  • Cost of corruption, and Ebola
    In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about the spread of the Ebola virus, the financial costs of research misconduct, aging in yeast, grooming in flies, and symbiosis between bacteria and fungal cells. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    32 min
  • Making blind mice see and mosquitoes resistant to malaria
    In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about using photographs to diagnose rare genetic disorders, an unexpected benefit of exercise, hybridizing fish species, the mysteries of the MECP2 gene, and the risks and benefits of using gene drives to alter wild populations. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    32 min
  • Why we don't (often) bite our tongues
    In this episode of the eLife podcast, the neuroscience of chewing, African sleeping sickness, skin cancer, and an ancient protein complex called TSET. eLife editor-in-chief Randy Schekman also shares his thoughts on scientific publishing... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    30 min
  • Pain, gene therapy, and regenerating worms
    In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about neuropathic pain, gene therapy, insulin production, ageing in worms, and how flatworms grow new body parts. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    31 min
  • Radiation, Anti-aphrodisiacs and Glowing Squid
    In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about the mating habits of flies, radiation resistance in bacteria, how insects learned to smell, and the Hawaiian bobtail squid... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    23 min
  • Redeye, Spies and Bacteria
    In this episode of the eLife podcast we learn more about sleep, super Spy chaperones, swimming bacteria, orphan genes and the neuroscience of birdsong. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    31 min
  • Rats won't rat on rats
    In this episode of the eLife podcast we discuss ants, rats, sharks and rays, and the pathogen that causes corn smut in maize. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    29 min
  • Sedatives, Maths and Evolution
    In this episode of the eLife Podcast, the growing problem of drug resistance, severe brain damage, sugar versus sweetener, public dilemmas, and the evolution of translation... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    30 min
  • Bacteria and Rheumatoid Arthritis
    In this episode of the eLife podcast we discuss doing protein crystallography with electrons, the discovery of a receptor for carbon dioxide, new insights into arthritis, how the brain responds to a missing hand, and the best shape for whiskers. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
    29 min

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The eLife Podcast, from eLife, the researcher-led, open access digital publication for outstanding research in life science and biomedicine.

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