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Episode 67: June 2020

In this episode, we hear about a controversial claim in plant science, why we cannot get enough of chocolate, HIV in women, sex as a biological variable, and why not all zebrafish like to mingle.
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Episode 67: June 2020
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Chapters

  1. 0:35
    Can plants learn?
    Contrary to previous reports, pea plants may not be capable of associative learning
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  2. 6:38
    Food for thought
    A high-sugar diet can increase our desire to eat sweet food
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  3. 14:03
    Lonely or lonesome?
    Isolation increases anxiety and social fear in zebrafish
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    • Short Report by Hande Tunbak, Mireya Vazquez-Prada ... Elena Dreosti
  4. 20:20
    How HIV spreads in women
    HIV infects and remodels T cells from the womb to better spread in the body
    This chapter is based on the following content
  5. 27:38
    Sex bias in biomedical research
    Researchers tend to overlook sex differences in experiments and analyses.
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Related

    1. Plant Biology

    Lack of evidence for associative learning in pea plants

    Kasey Markel
    1. Neuroscience

    Dietary sugar inhibits satiation by decreasing the central processing of sweet taste

    Christina E May, Julia Rosander ... Monica Dus
    1. Neuroscience

    Whole-brain mapping of socially isolated zebrafish reveals that lonely fish are not loners

    Hande Tunbak, Mireya Vazquez-Prada ... Elena Dreosti
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HIV efficiently infects T cells from the endometrium and remodels them to promote systemic viral spread

    Tongcui Ma, Xiaoyu Luo ... Nadia R Roan

  5. Meta-Research: A 10-year follow-up study of sex inclusion in the biological sciences

    Nicole C Woitowich, Annaliese Beery, Teresa Woodruff