When Maggie Slepian flipped her kayak on Montana’s Gallatin River, she found herself trapped underwater, fighting to escape a spray skirt she had never practiced removing. In those harrowing moments, she felt time slow down, her thoughts split between terror, sorrow, and love for her family as she faced the possibility of her final breaths. Surviving the accident left Maggie grappling with PTSD, grief, and the loss of the friend who had pulled her from the water. In this episode of Alive

In this week’s episode of the Xtalks Life Science Podcast, host Ayesha Rashid, Senior Life Science Journalist at Xtalks.com, welcomes Mike Exton, PhD, CEO of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, for a conversation about leveraging gene science to develop innovative medicines for serious chronic conditions.Dr. Exton discusses Lexicon’s growing pipeline, which includes promising therapies for diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other cardiometabolic diseases, areas where unmet

Why do peanuts, pollen, or pet dander make some of us sneeze or swell up—but not others? In this episode, Dr. Biology talks with immunologist Esther Burgess Florsheim from Arizona State University to explore how allergies start, why they’re becoming more common, and what’s really going on when your immune system sounds the alarm.From sniffles to “no peanuts, please,” get ready to learn how your body protects you—and sometimes overreacts—in surprising ways!Read more: Toxic Response Immune system

We're thrilled to bring you this episode of The Microscopists with an absolute force in accessible science and microscopy innovation—Manu Prakash of Stanford University.Manu shares the origin of the now-legendary $1 paper microscope, the Foldscope.He also discusses the importance of making science hands-on and accessible, his passion for fieldwork, and explains why he has barnacles growing in his bathroom!Watch or listen to all episodes of The Microscopists:

In this episode we chat with Bec from the UK who has recently achieved her dream of becoming a mortician to help families of the deceased. And with her sights firmly set on becoming an embalmer, Bec has some fantastic insights on the challenges and triumphs of working in the mortuary, and some helpful advice for anyone who may be keen to get into this type of role. In you're interested in knowing more on what it's like to actually work with the deceased, check out our YouTube channel where we...

Take a look at the key strategies to keep Salmonella at bay throughout the poultry production chain in this episode of WATT Poultry Podcast featuring Marcos Rostagno, DVM, Ph.D., U.S. technical and innovation director with Trouw Nutrition, and Mark Clements, editor-in-chief poultry, with WATT Global Media.

In this podcast episode, Jokūbas Leikauskas, Editor, BioInsights, speaks to Trevor Hallam, who served as Chief Scientific Officer of Sail Biomedicines until July 2025. The interview, recorded in June 2025, explores advances in RNA therapeutics, particularly circular RNA (circRNA or eRNA) technologies, and how they may help overcome current limitations in delivery, durability, and specificity for applications such as CAR-T cell therapies and autoimmune disease treatment.

In this Best Practices in Keratoconus Management podcast episode, Brandon D. Ayres, MD, welcomes Tomas Navratil, PhD, to examine the crucial role of oxygen in corneal crosslinking. Dr. Navratil explains the underlying science of oxygen’s involvement in the crosslinking reaction and how varying oxygen levels can affect treatment efficacy. The discussion highlights emerging strategies and new technologies that aim to optimize oxygen delivery and enhance outcomes for patients with keratoconus.

AABP executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich reviews a paper published in The Bovine Practitioner with two of the authors. Joining today are Dr. Greg Habing, professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr. Emily Nogay, clinical assistant professor at The Ohio State University Large Animal Ambulatory Services. Salmonella Dublin is a host-adapted and zoonotic pathogen affecting many dairy farms. It can be associat...

In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe kick off the Halloween season with the notorious low-budget 1981 Italian slasher film “Absurd,” directed by Joe D’Amato and starring George Eastman. (originally published 9/27/2024)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode provides excerpts detailing the spiritual journey of retired U.S. Navy SEAL Chadd Wright, focusing on his supposed demonic encounter during a deployment in Germany, which led to his conversion from atheism to fervent Christianity. The episode explains Wright's background, including his rigorous SEAL training and subsequent military career with Team 8, contextualizing the supernatural experience against his hardened, secular worldview. The source chronicles the unsettling events leading

Think about the thing you’ve practiced more than anything else in the world. Maybe it’s painting. Or writing. Or playing baseball. Now, imagine you wake up one day, and you just can’t do it. You’re not sick. You’re not injured. But suddenly, that one thing is impossible. (Originally published in 2024) Guests: Rick Ankiel, former Major League Baseball star; Sally Akehurst, sports psychologist and a dean at University of Roehampton, London; Steven Frucht, neurologist at NYU Langone For show

My guest is Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art and expert in how to overcome the inner force of "resistance"—the self-sabotaging tendency to procrastinate on your life's most important work that keeps you from realizing your professional and creative potential. Steven shares actionable tools for defeating inner resistance that work. His approach is concrete, not based on slogans or inspirational messages. As the author of numerous best-selling books and screenplays, Steven's routines for

The blood-brain barrier (BBB), formed by brain endothelial cells, pericytes, and astrocytes, is organized into a neurovascular unit that regulates the exchange of proteins between blood circulation and brain parenchyma. Human stem-cell-based models using brain endothelial cells are a powerful tool to investigate how disease-related conditions might affect the blood-brain barrier integrity. However, the cell type composition is critical to faithfully model transcytosis across the blood-brain b...

In this captivating episode, we’re thrilled to welcome acclaimed director, producer, and writer Joseph Granda, renowned for his inspiring films The Healing Garden and A Walk in the Clouds. Today, Joseph joins us to discuss his exhilarating new project, the award-winning The Sasqualogist, a cinematic adventure sure to captivate audiences, especially Bigfoot enthusiasts. He also shares fascinating insights into another film he produced, Sasquatch and the Missing Man, where he and his team encou...

Novartis’ biggest deal in more than a decade gives the Swiss pharma three programs for muscular dystrophies that are close to the finish line. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the $12 billion deal for Avidity in the context of Novartis’ recent acquisitions and the antibody-oligonucleotide conjugate platform it is gaining. The team dives into RNA versus DNA modalities, noting antisense and siRNA approaches appear to be gaining traction with major pharma...

Are you one of those people who always says «yes» when someone asks you to do something - however, you actually don’t want to do it but are afraid to say «no»? Well, maybe this episode will help. Good luck!

Calorie cycling isn’t a trick—it’s stress management for your metabolism. In this Mini Micropedia, Mikki explains how sustained restriction can drive adaptive thermogenesis: leptin falls, ghrelin rises, thyroid output dips, NEAT declines, and fat loss stalls. Then she lays out practical cycling options—from simple weekday–weekend shifts to planned carb refeeds, diet breaks, and PSMF days—so you can periodise your intake around training and real life without blowing your deficit. You’ll

Dr. Wendy Kuohung, a 2025 March of Dimes Discovery Research Grant winner, discusses her original research to find novel therapeutics to treat preeclampsia associated with APOL1 gene variants.

The source provides an overview of an independent researcher's analysis regarding the statistical correlation between Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and global nuclear infrastructure. Specifically, it discusses a landmark 2025 peer-reviewed study that established a statistically significant pattern of UAP activity spiking near nuclear sites, particularly during periods of weapons testing or geopolitical tension, with a correlation coefficient of 0.87. The episode explains that historical UAP