Episode 100: September 2025

Chapters

1. 0:51

   Caring is sharing

   Skin contact during parental care can influence the skin microbiome of poison frog tadpoles
2. 7:41

   What came first?

   Does disease lead to an unhealthy gut microbiome, or vice versa?
   
3. 17:16

    Queens and genes

   Queen ants feed short RNA molecules to other ants to produce a caste system.
   
4. 24:05

   Brain worms

   Excess glutamate produced by tapeworm larvae might cause epilepsy by overexciting brain cells.
   
5. 33:22

   The dangers of ß-glucans

   A compound found in the cell walls of fungi can reprogram immune cells in the lungs