Tim explains AI co-scientist, a tool released by Google, which it hopes to help scientists generate hypotheses and research proposals, and to accelerate the speed of scientific and biomedical discoveries.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• AI cracks superbug problem (BBC)
• Accelerating scientific breakthroughs (Google Research)
• Towards an AI co-scientist (arXiv)
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TWiN explains a study showing that when a mouse is confronted with an unconscious conspecific, it engages in behavior including tongue-dragging to resuscitate the animal via a tongue-brain connection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• Tongue-dragging in mice (Sci Adv)
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TWiN discusses a study showing that repetitive injury reactivates HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model and induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung

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• Repetitive injury, herpes, and Alzheimers (Sci Signal)
• The tau of herpesvirus (TWiV 1187)
• Fishing for viruses in senile (TWiV 519)
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TWiN explains a study showing that while groups of neurons, form the basis for memory, astrocytes are key components of the adaptive reponse to learning experiences, and regulate the flow of information during circuit plasticity and memory recall.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Tim Cheung

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• Astrocytes and memory (Nature)
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TWiN explains the identification of a brain circuit and periodic branch-specific neurotransmitter deployment that regulates organismal adaptation to photoperiod change.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Tim Cheung

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• Brain circuit for photoperiod adaptation (Nature)
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TWiN explores how pregnancy leads to modifications in brain structure and function that may prepare the mother for parenting.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Vivianne Morrison

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• Pregnancy transforms the brain (Nature)
• Hormone-mediated neural remodeling during pregnancy (Science)
• Effects of pregnancy on brain activity (Nature Comm)
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Joseph Paton and Felipe Rodrigues join TWiN to explain how they used temperature manipulation to alter the speed of neuronal dynamics in the dorsal striatum of rats, a manipulation that selectively slowed down or sped up time perception, illuminating the mechanisms of time-based decisions.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

Guest: Joseph J. Paton and Felipe Rodrigues

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• Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision (Nat Neurosci)
• Hot times for the dorsal striatum (Nat Neurosci)
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Mauro Costa-Mattioli returns to TWiN to discuss the results of a placebo controlled, double blind clinical trial of a probiotic which improved social behavior but not autism severity in children with ASD.

Hosts: Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

Guest: Mauro Costa-Mattioli

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• Probiotics for autism spectrum disorder (Cell Host Microbe)
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TWiN reviews altered somatosensory reactivity, which is frequently observed among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and in mouse models the developmental timing of aberrant touch processing can predict the manifestation of ASD-associated behaviors in mouse models. 

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• Mouse models of autism spectrum disorder (Nature Neuroscience)
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TWiN reviews experiments which show that SARS-CoV-2 triggers the up-regulation of synaptic components and perturbs local electrical field potential in cerebral organoids, organotypic culture of human brain explants and post-mortem brain samples from individuals with COVID-19. 

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• SARS-CoV-2 perturbs synaptic homeostasis (Nature Micro)
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