DNA and Behavioral Genetics
Behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin on the prediction of GCSE results, reading disability, and the heritabilit...
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December 13, 2016
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December 12, 2016
Genetics of Obesity and Diabetes
Epidemiologist Nick Wareham on leptin, type 2 diabetes, and genome-wide association studies
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December 6, 2016
Alzheimer’s Disease
Neuroscientist Mark Mattson on tau proteins, free radicals, and the importance of exercise in maintaining cogn...
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December 1, 2016
Alcoholism
Neuroscientist John Krystal on alcohol's action on the brain, social and habitual drinking, and why some peopl...
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November 29, 2016
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Molecular Biologist Greg Towers on how HIV is transmitted, the possibilities of an HIV vaccine, and how it hel...
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October 25, 2016
Chemotherapy
Molecular oncologist Matthias Dobbelstein on targeted therapies, gene p53, and DNA damage
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NeuroTech
October 14, 2016
Clinical Brain Imaging
Neuroscientist Sylvain Baillet on CT scanning, the way MRI works, and other techniques that revolutionized med...
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August 5, 2016
Hallucinations
Neuroscientist Paul Allen on schizophrenia, self-regulation of neural activity, and famous voice-hearers
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December 4, 2015
Speaking multiple languages can improve stroke out...
Patients who speak more than one language seem to be twice as likely to have a better outcome after stroke
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November 10, 2015
Controlling Noisy Dynamics in Biological Networks ...
Healthy cells can be prevented from turning into cancerous cells via manipulation of “noise” component in cell...
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November 3, 2015
African dams contribute to over 1 million malaria ...
Dams seem to contribute significantly to malaria risk in sub-Saharan Africa
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October 13, 2015
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
Pathobiologist Juergen Richt explains the significance of the studies for which the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physio...
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