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Episode 99: June 2025

In this episode, we hear about giant viruses, monkeys who wash their food, sepsis in infant pigs, how cancers can cause extra tentacles to grow in hydra, and the impact of speaking multiple languages on the structure of the cortex.
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Episode 99: June 2025
Amanda Tan (CC BY 4.0)

Chapters

  1. 0:35
    Welcome to Jyvaskylavirus
    Researchers have discovered a new giant virus.
    This chapter is based on the following content
    • Research Article by Gabriel Magno de Freitas Almeida, Iker Arriaga ... Lotta-Riina Sundberg
  2. 9:14
    The cost of a clean meal
    Dominant monkeys tend not to wash their food to save energy and maintain their place in the social hierarchy.
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  3. 16:42
    Less is more
    The cortical tissue is thinner – and most likely more efficient – in multilingual people.
    This chapter is based on the following content
  4. 23:30
    A balancing act
    Too much blood sugar can spark sepsis in infant pigs.
    This chapter is based on the following content
  5. 31:11
    Can cancers control their hosts?
    Transmissible tumours manipulate remote host tissues, triggering tentacle growth in hydra offspring.
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Related

    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Genomic and structural insights into Jyvaskylavirus, the first giant virus isolated from Finland

    Gabriel Magno de Freitas Almeida, Iker Arriaga ... Lotta-Riina Sundberg
    1. Ecology

    Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returns

    Jessica E Rosien, Luke D Fannin ... Amanda Tan
    1. Neuroscience

    Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience

    Olga Kepinska, Josue Dalboni da Rocha ... Narly Golestani
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Medicine

    Altered hepatic metabolism mediates sepsis preventive effects of reduced glucose supply in infected preterm newborns

    Ole Bæk, Tik Muk ... Duc Ninh Nguyen
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    First evidence for the evolution of host manipulation by tumors during the long-term vertical transmission of tumor cells in Hydra oligactis

    Justine Boutry, Océane Rieu ... Fréderic Thomas