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Audiommunity

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A podcast about our bodies" never-ending fight with the outside world

science & medicine

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53:46

You're famous if you have a wikipedia page

Audiommunity ·

2017/11/19

We've got a couple of new hosts - Please give a warm welcome to Chadene Tremaglio and Camilla Engblom! Kate is still holed up in a cave (lab) trying to wrap up her PhD. But she'll soon return... we hope...

59:02

The Devil Went Down to... awww, C'mon Matt

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2016/09/30

Audiommunity loves Tasmanian devils, so we bite the shit out of them... In this episode, we're talking about a contagious tumor that couldn't happen to a nicer species. No seriously, it really couldn't. Tasmanian devils bite each other on the face to say hello. WTF devils?

76:46

If At First You Don't Succeed

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2016/06/17

This week - Evidence that viruses drive the evolution of their hosts - who would have guessed? Matt struggles to remember how evolution works, and Kate and Kevin yell past each other about open peer review.

77:33

So, a B-cell walks into a germinal center...

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2016/05/11

In this episode, Matt and Kevin give in to aesthetics. This paper's just really pretty.

58:56

Allergies Suck Less than Cancer

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2016/04/26

This week, a guy gets a kiwi allergy from a bone marrow transplant from his sister, Matt envisions a magic mouse, and Kate peaces out after 20 min. Meanwhile, Kevin continues to be the only one drinking... that schtick may not last much longer.

57:21

Bacteriophiles with Jesse Noar

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2016/04/21

Something a bit different this episiode. Last month, we joined Jesse Noar, host of the excellent Bacteriophiles podcast to record an episode about oncolytic viruses (viruses that blow up cancer cells).

77:08

J Lo Poop Pills

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2016/03/17

In this episode, how parasitic worms alter in immunomodulatory effects of the gut microbiome. Also, Kate expresses her distaste for large datasets and animal experiments, and Matt proposes a weight loss company that will only market to identical twins.

72:52

More cow... sirens?

Audiommunity ·

2016/02/25

In this episode, we talk about the innate immune system's Trojan cow strategy - using a cyclic dinucleotide as a signaling molecule means that viruses can package the seeds of their own destruction.

51:42

When your immune system is all up in it

Audiommunity ·

2016/01/28

In this episode we talk about lymphatics in the brain and why that's both obvious and not obvious. Meanwhile, Kate drinks disgusting smoothies and Kevin triggers Matt with a trigger warning.

61:58

Jimmy Carter's Brain on Drugs

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2016/01/13

In this episode, Matt and Kevin discuss checkpoint blockade cancer immunotherapy (wow, that's a mouthful). When cancer stamps down the breaks of the immune system, cutting the break line can allow T-cells to do their job.

70:03

The other DRACO

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2015/12/21

This week, we're discussing DRACOs - not the Harry Potter character, a "new" class of antiviral therapeutics that links up the double-stranded RNA-binding part of one protein to the cell-death (apoPtosis)-activating part of a different protein.

72:40

Matt got married, and we're talking about pregnancy

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2015/12/09

In this episode, we're talking about the placental microbiome - that is, the bacteria that hang around a developing fetus in the womb. Wait, there are bacteria hanging around a developing fetus? Apparently!

67:58

GATACA

Audiommunity ·

2015/10/01

In this episode, we discuss the moral implications of doing experiments on babies without brains, and editing the genomes of unborn humans. I reveal my nature as a moral monster, and Kate can't resist bringing up Kim Kardashian's artificial selection of her own offspring.

52:39

Bee pollen is one of those hippy things

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2015/04/16

To celebrate the return of the warm(ish) weather, we discuss a paper looking at immune responses to bee venom, and the underlying causes of environmental allergy.

58:12

No, Not Seminol

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2015/03/11

A discussion about sCD38, a molecule that's secreted in mouse and human sperm, and may play a role in suppressing a mother's immune response to a new fetus.

54:14

Taco shock syndrome

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2015/01/28

Turns out *Staphylococcus aureus* can evade the immune system by activating it. Also, Matt's bad hair day and a link between tacos and tampons.

75:25

I'd just like to second everything Abbie said

Audiommunity ·

2014/09/04

In this episode, we're joined by Abbie Smith, a postdoctoral fellow studying HIV at Emory University, and author of the popular (and always wonderful) ERV blog.

82:25

Let's just make it more deadly

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2014/08/18

Kate and Kevin talk influenza and gain of function research. Should we be making flu more deadly?

76:45

Hot Dog Buns, Hard Lines and Floppy Bits

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2014/07/14

After a hard day's work, sometimes you want to just kick your feet back and relax. Unfortunately, sometimes your CD8 T-cells want the same thing, even though they don't have feet.

37:48

Just a Huge Distraction

Audiommunity ·

2014/06/04

In this episode, Kevin talks with Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis. Almost 20 years ago, Ronald discovered Xa21, a plant pattern recognition receptor that guards against bacterial infection. This receptor shares many features with Toll-like receptors, and the role of Xa21 was shown a year before TLRs were implicated in immunity.

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