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Episode 56: April 2019

In this episode, we hear about multipartite viruses, brain maps of people without hands, measles vaccinations, reproducible science, and how to spot premature babies.
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Episode 56: April 2019
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Chapters

  1. 0:38
    How the brain deals with a missing hand
    The brains of people who have lost a hand and those who were born without one are wired differently.
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    • Research Advance by Daan B Wesselink, Fiona MZ van den Heiligenberg ... Tamar R Makin
  2. 7:21
    Measles vaccination campaigns work
    Measles vaccination campaigns have saved the lives of about 50,000 Indian children in three years.
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  3. 14:19
    Spotting premature babies
    Lack of prenatal care can make it hard to detect babies born too early, but a blood test may be changing this.
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  4. 20:53
    The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative
    Brazilian scientists are planning to test the reproducibility of the science done in their country.
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  5. 25:21
    The mystery of multipartite viruses
    How do viruses that split their genetic information between several viral particles reproduce?
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    • Short Report by Anne Sicard, Elodie Pirolles ... Stéphane Blanc

Related

    1. Neuroscience

    Obtaining and maintaining cortical hand representation as evidenced from acquired and congenital handlessness

    Daan B Wesselink, Fiona MZ van den Heiligenberg ... Tamar R Makin
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine

    The impact of measles immunization campaigns in India using a nationally representative sample of 27,000 child deaths

    Benjamin KC Wong, Shaza A Fadel ... Prabhat Jha
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    External validation of postnatal gestational age estimation using newborn metabolic profiles in Matlab, Bangladesh

    Malia SQ Murphy, Steven Hawken ... Kumanan Wilson
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Science Forum: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative

    Olavo B Amaral, Kleber Neves ... Clarissa FD Carneiro
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A multicellular way of life for a multipartite virus

    Anne Sicard, Elodie Pirolles ... Stéphane Blanc