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Why do farmers help goats climb trees? Where was a living T-Rex hiding in Singapore? Regenerating limbs is cool but how do we change the plans and say grow even more heads?
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Making outfits that breath and prevent sweating using living cells. Plus we find out about materials that shed their waterproof skin like a snake and printing flexible circuits.
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Episode 222 - Finding new ways to help people with Asthma, plus regenerating the sense of smell15/5/2017 Does anyone know how to recover a lost sense of smell? What are the best ways to treat and reduce the symptoms of asthma? What other methods can we use to treat asthma that don't rely on steroids? Sources: Story 1: Children's National Health System. (2017, May 12). Stress-mitigation interventions for parents did not lessen symptoms among kids with asthma: Patient-centered interventions well received, but NIH guidelines alone can improve pediatric asthma outcomes. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 14, 2017 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170512120527.htm Story 2: Alleviation of Multiple Asthmatic Pathologic Features with Orally Available and Subtype Selective GABAA Receptor Modulators Gloria S. Forkuo, Amanda N. Nieman, Nina Y. Yuan, Revathi Kodali, Olivia B. Yu, Nicolas M. Zahn, Rajwana Jahan, Guanguan Li, Michael Rajesh Stephen, Margaret L. Guthrie, Michael M. Poe, Benjamin D. Hartzler, Ted W. Harris, Gene T. Yocum, Charles W. Emala, Douglas A. Steeber, Douglas C. Stafford, James M. Cook, and Leggy A. Arnold Molecular Pharmaceutics Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00183 Story 3: Russell B. Fletcher, Diya Das, Levi Gadye, Kelly N. Street, Ariane Baudhuin, Allon Wagner, Michael B. Cole, Quetzal Flores, Yoon Gi Choi, Nir Yosef, Elizabeth Purdom, Sandrine Dudoit, Davide Risso, John Ngai. Deconstructing Olfactory Stem Cell Trajectories at Single-Cell Resolution. Cell Stem Cell, 2017; DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2017.04.003
Sea-scorpions ruled the ancient oceans with a slicing tails. Finding the origin of the evolutionary success story of mandibles. Forget extracting DNA from dinosaur fossils, we learn of a new method using proteins to reconstruct the past.
Sources: Story 1: Experimental Biology 2017. "What can we learn from dinosaur proteins? The ability to extract proteins from ancient bones raises striking new questions." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 24 April 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170424141356.htm>. Story 2: W. Scott Persons, John Acorn. A Sea Scorpion’s Strike: New Evidence of Extreme Lateral Flexibility in the Opisthosoma of Eurypterids. The American Naturalist, 2017; 000 DOI: 10.1086/691967 Image: Nathan Rogers, 2017, University of Alberta. Story 3: Cédric Aria, Jean-Bernard Caron. Burgess Shale fossils illustrate the origin of the mandibulate body plan. Nature, 2017; DOI: 10.1038/nature22080
The long goodbye to Cassini will include close encounters of a ring kind. Plus what we can learn from Oil and Gas about the bubbling lakes of Titan. As well as the tiniest ringed object in our solar system - a centaur.
Sources: Story 1: Materials provided by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/cassini http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/grandfinale Story 2: Simulating the Smallest Ring World of Chariklo, Shugo Michikoshi and Eiichiro Kokubo 2017, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 837, Number 1, 837 L13 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa6256 Story 3: Materials provided by JPL, Last Updated: March 21, 2017, Editor: Tony Greicius https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/experiments-show-titan-lakes-may-fizz-with-nitrogen/ |
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