Daily Discoveries Sound Bite: A Podcast Network from the UW Daily
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Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast from the science section. Each week Science Editor Thelonious Goerz and Writer Rhea John re-cap the material in the science section in one distilled episode.
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RF Diffusion and Protein Design
On this episode, Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden interview David Juergens and Joe Watson from David Baker’s lab about their recent publication “Broadly applicable and accurate protein design by integrating structure prediction networks and diffusion generative models.” Using the same principles underlying the image-generating software DALL-E, the Baker lab has been able to create software that […]
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Assessing Binding Capabilities of s.pneumoniae
Daily Discoveries is starting off this quarter with an episode about a recent article that discusses how the structure of capsular polysaccharides on bacteria allow them to bind to human cells and cause infection.
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Manipulating Microbiomes
In this episode, Hayden and Sanjana discuss recent advancements in CRISPR-Cas technology that allows for the specific enrichment or depletion of a single bacterial strain in a complex microbial community.
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Human Cortical Organoids
This week Sanjana, Oskar, and Hayden discuss a study where an imaging technology was created in order to observe a mouse brain implant over time without disturbing the mouse or the implant.
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Potential Hair Loss Treatment
In this episode, Hayden, Sanjana, and Oskar discuss a paper that explores potential alopecia treatments using machine learning.
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Sweet New Discoveries
Sanjana, Hayden, and Oskar dive into how scientists are turning to the natural world to discover new non-caloric sweeteners