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The eLife Podcast

The eLife Podcast

Von: Dr Chris Smith
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 The eLife Podcast, from eLife, the researcher-led, open access digital publication for outstanding research in life science and biomedicine.The Naked Scientists Hygiene & gesundes Leben Wissenschaft
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  • Ants doing gene therapy, and tadpole microbiomes

    Ants doing gene therapy, and tadpole microbiomes
    Sep 8 2025
    This month, as the eLife Podcast hits its century, we hear how getting frog dads to cross-foster tadpoles has revealed the way in which some frogs come by their microbiomes, the ants that do gene therapy, signs that disease causes a breakdown in nutrient exchange between the elements of the microbiome, how fungi reprogram immune cells to cause over-reactions in sepsis, and new insights into how tapeworm larvae in the brain cause seizures... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
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    43 Min.
  • Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth

    Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth
    Jun 19 2025
    In the eLife podcast, a university compost heap has turned up Finland's first documented "giant virus". Also, why monkeys de-sand their supper, and how learning more languages actually makes brain tissue thinner. Then, the link between sugar and neonatal sepsis, and how a cancer controls its hydra host by bestowing it with extra tentacles... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
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    39 Min.
  • Frog toxicity, and what a year's schooling does to the brain

    Frog toxicity, and what a year's schooling does to the brain
    Apr 24 2025
    What is the impact of an extra year at school on the brain? Also, how poison dart frogs come by their toxins, using movies to track the developing infant nervous system, the insect-spread bacterial plant parasite that is a mastermind of matchmaking, and a new cancer tool to link disease with the best drugs. Chris Smith takes a look at some of the most powerful papers out this month in eLife... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
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    35 Min.
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