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The eLife Podcast

The eLife Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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Health & Fitness

Frequency: 1 episode/47d. Total Eps: 102

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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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  • 🇩đŸ‡Ē Germany - lifeSciences

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  • đŸ‡Ŧ🇧 Great Britain - lifeSciences

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    #84

  • 🇨đŸ‡Ļ Canada - lifeSciences

    24/05/2026
    #97

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How termites build their nests, and drivers of new diseases

Episode 92

mardi 18 juin 2024 â€ĸ Duration 34:28

This month, how human encroachment and conflict on nature drives emerging diseases, the role of "stigmergy" in guiding the nest-building feats of termites, a project to track infectious abortions in Africa, why people need to speak the same language around neurodiversity, and what fat flies are revealing about the way weight gain affects food-related recall... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Hibernation, Ketamine and Aphantasia

Episode 91

vendredi 19 avril 2024 â€ĸ Duration 37:53

This month, how animals hibernate and evidence that muscle myosin makes its own heat in the cold, brain scans to reveal how ketamine relieves resistant depression, the way the brain changes when animals build a bond, the evolution of flu outbreaks, and how aphantasia affects autobiographical memory. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Babies cry in utero, and pushing preprints

Episode 82

vendredi 11 novembre 2022 â€ĸ Duration 33:01

This month, what ultrasound scans are revealing about how primates learn to cry before birth, the new imaging technique highlighting brain structural changes linked to speech and language impairments, why eLife is breaking the publishing mould to prioritise the preprint in future, and how evolution turn a single lung into a pair... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Urban microbiomes, and crushed cancers

Episode 81

vendredi 16 septembre 2022 â€ĸ Duration 32:22

This month, what happens to the microbiomes of wild animals when they share cities with humans, how being crushed in a cancer makes metastatic cells more malign, a genetic tool to uncover when populations merged back in history, how mating affects the moth sense of smell, and why Africa offers a wealth of research opportunities for the neuroscience community... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Does Vaping Inflame the Brain?

Episode 80

lundi 4 juillet 2022 â€ĸ Duration 29:28

Signs that some vapes inflame the brain and other organs, how a whiff of CO2 puts mosquitoes into feeding mode, how long, at present rates, it will take before science reaches gender parity, and how babies get their vitamin D. Chris Smith looks inside some of the latest papers in eLife... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Animal handedness, diabetes and dinosaurs

Episode 79

vendredi 6 mai 2022 â€ĸ Duration 36:22

This month, diabetes and the body clock, the antibodies we raise to Covid-19 vaccines versus infection, dinosaurs armoured like tanks, baboons catching up on sleep, and how language evolution goes hand in hand with handedness... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Human birth trigger genes, and clam cancer

Episode 78

jeudi 17 mars 2022 â€ĸ Duration 36:57

This month, the genes linked to human birth onset, signs hunter gatherers already had a taste for cereals before farming came along, how sunflowers balance UV protection, aridity resistance and attractiveness to pollinators, a contagious cancer that can jump the species barrier, and inside the eLife Ambassador Programme... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Sediba's backbone, and antibacterial bacteria

Episode 77

lundi 7 fÊvrier 2022 â€ĸ Duration 38:14

This month, the bones missing from Australopithecus sediba's backbone are uncovered, but what do they reveal about this ancient hominid's posture? Also, why a link to the nervous system is crucial for salamander limb regeneration, the bacteria that can treat bacterial infections, the social stomach in ant colonies, and even old worms can combat the ageing process... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Can Corals Resist Bleaching?

Episode 76

mardi 14 dÊcembre 2021 â€ĸ Duration 33:51

This month, corals that can resist bleaching, signs that the human immune system went up a gear about 8000 years ago, documenting plant cells with an ambitious initiative to generate an atlas all the cell types in all types of plants, new insights into the science of the hug hormone oxytocin, and how deleterious genes hold up the evolution of healthy genes too... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Does stress turn your hair grey?

Episode 75

lundi 18 octobre 2021 â€ĸ Duration 33:47

This month, mobile phones are an excellent proxy to test for Covid-19, stress and hair going grey, signs that junk food inflammes the immune system, what makes rats want to help other rats, and the emerging infections in South America linked to conquest and the slave trade. Dr Chris Smith takes a look at more of the top science publishing in eLife... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

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