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  1. Episode 95: October 2024

    In this episode, we hear about cancer and mental health, efforts to make antibodies more reliable, exercises that can reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and the possibility that products from human birth tissue could be used to treat post-surgical pain.
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Cell Death: Caspases promote cell proliferation after necrosis

    Prathibha Yarikipati, Andreas Bergmann
    An enzyme known as caspase, which initiates apoptosis, has a central role in the regeneration of cells and repair of tissue that can occur after necrosis.
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    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Notch Signaling: Antibodies get under the skin

    Chiara Levra Levron, Gabriele Piacenti, Giacomo Donati
    By inhibiting receptor-ligand interactions in sebaceous glands, antibodies may be able to treat certain skin conditions.
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    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Immune Cells: Growing microglia in the lab

    Jonathan M Levenson, Hio Tong Kam, Dong Feng Chen
    Transplanting microglia derived from human stem cells into mice reveals new possibilities for treating neurodegenerative eye diseases.
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    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Camouflage: Tiny particles help insects evade predators

    Lin Wang, Tak-Sing Wong
    By reducing the reflection of ultraviolet light, hollow nanoparticles called brochosomes help to protect leafhoppers from predators.
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  2. Being Neurodivergent in Academia: Navigating neurodiversity in higher education in India

    Deepali Taneja, Poornima Viswanathan, Sahana V Rajan
    True inclusion starts in academia when we move from a deficit-based perspective to one that recognises and nurtures the unique strengths and talents of neurodivergent individuals.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Stem Cells: Don’t be so naïve

    Valerie Horsley, Aya Nassereddine
    New evidence sheds light on actin regulation of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Decisions: Tracking the evolution of a single choice

    Bharath Chandra Talluri, Hendrikje Nienborg
    Measuring the activity of hundreds of neurons in macaque brains simultaneously provides further evidence that drift-diffusion dynamics underlie how decisions are made in the brain.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Brain Development: Investigating the impact of ketogenic diets

    Nalia Samba, Marie Gendrel
    Exposure to ketone bodies in early development can reduce neurological impairments in a strain of the nematode C. elegans with PTEN defects.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Vole Parenting: A fine line between attack and care

    Nicole Rigney
    Oxytocin neuron projections from two brain regions involved in parental care regulate both parental care and infanticidal behaviors in virgin mandarin voles.
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