By Virginia&Frances
The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.
Young & Not So Stupid listeners, it is officially our one year anniversary! To celebrate, we patched together some of our favorite moments from the first 9 podcast episodes. We really hope you enjoy, and we hope you will continue to listen!
For this week’s journal club, Virginia and Frances are tackling the same attention grabbing paper: Cutaneous Bacteria in the Gut Microbiome as Biomarkers of Systemic Malodor and People Are Allergic to Me (PATM) Conditions: Insights From a Virtually Conducted Clinical Trial (Gabashvili 2020). Frances breaks down the microbiome results, while Virginia covers the medical conditions and survey data. Enjoy!
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We are really excited for this today in science episode about radiation! We decided to focus on historical perspectives on radiation, and what we have learned from these experiences. Virginia talks about the radium girls, and how the unknown dangers of radium led to better protections for employees. Frances discusses how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster affected the ecology of the region, but taught us a lot about how life responds to nuclear fallout. Enjoy!
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Our second episode in the ‘What They Didn’t Teach You in Postgraduate School’ is on how to give a great presentation! Frances starts us off with advice on giving great scientific presentations, including oral and poster presentations. Virginia discusses different presentations medical students give, and advice on how to give a great patient presentation. Both gals discuss presentation triumphs and failures.
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This week's journal club centers on the ethics of DNA testing. Virginia begins with a discussion on “The current landscape for direct-to-consumer genetic testing: legal, ethical, and policy issues” (Hogarth et al. 2008). She discusses how direct-to-consumer testing gives people access to their health information, but could be harmful without provider support. Frances talks about “Should police have access to genetic genealogy databases? Capturing the Golden State Killer and other criminals using a controversial new forensic technique” (Guerrini et al. 2018). She discusses how police use of genetic information has helped solve crimes, but policy should be put in place to protect the privacy of users.
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Young & Not So Stupid is back with another today in science episode, all about prions! Prions are infectious proteins, and while they seem like science fiction, they are responsible for several diseases in mammals (ever heard of mad cow?). Frances starts off the episode with some basic biochemistry about prions. Virginia talks about the clinical side of prion disease in humans, which often presents as neurodegenerative disease. Hope you enjoy!
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We are back this week with another episode on someone you should know in science: Dr. Barbara McClintock. Dr. McClintock was an influential geneticist, whose groundbreaking work went against conventional ideas of genetics at the time. She discovered ‘jumping genes’ in maize, now known as transposable elements. Dr. McClintock also set in motion the study of epigenetics, 40 years before the field was formally recognized. It took decades before the scientific community recognized Dr. McClintock’s ideas, but despite the criticism, she never let up.
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The Young & Not So Stupid gals are starting a new series for the advice column, all about what you don’t learn in postgraduate school. The first episode is on how to get in! Virginia tackles medical school, while Frances talks about graduate school. V&F focus on the components of the applications, and give advice on things to consider while in undergrad. We hope this episode helps you!
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For the journal club this week, we are talking about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs! Frances starts us off with a discussion on “Developing superior alleles of yield genes in rice by artificial mutagenesis using the CRISPR/Cas9 system” (Huang et al. 2018). She discusses how CRISPR/Cas9 is a viable genetic engineering method for making higher yield rice crops. Virginia focuses on “Assessment of the health impact of GM plant diets in long-term and multigenerational animal feeding trials: A literature review” (Snell et al. 2012). She summarizes an important systematic review dispelling myths that GMOs are harmful to animals.
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The Young & Not So Stupid pod crew returns with part 2 of diversity in STEM and medicine! Virginia and Frances discuss ways that medicine and science can improve diversity.
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The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.