Dietary Supplements, Head Lice, and HeLa Cell Gemone Double X Science

Title: Dietary Supplements, Head Lice, and HeLa Cell Genome

Welcome to Double X Science for August 9, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, science ed editor.

Our topics cover posts since out last podcast:
The gummy deficiency http://www.doublexscience.org/the-gummy-deficiency/
Scientific Realities Trump Paleofantasy http://www.doublexscience.org/paleofantasies-are-trumped-by-scientific-realities/
The gift of depression and mood disorder http://www.doublexscience.org/the-gift-of-depression-and-mood-disorder/
Back to School Fact-check: Head Lice http://www.doublexscience.org/back-to-school-fact-check-head-lice/
Smoke signals cancer’s edges in surgery http://www.doublexscience.org/iknife-excises-uncertainty-in-tumor-resection/


Double X Science, Jr. posts:
Professor Elizabeth H. Blackburn http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/professor-elizabeth-h-blackburn.html
Laser Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/laser-light-amplification-by-stimulated.html
Use of Cesium for Wildlife Tracking http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/use-of-cesium-for-wildlife-tracking.html


News of the week was about the mapping of the HeLa cell line genome. The two articles discussed in the podcast are:
http://www.nature.com/news/deal-done-over-hela-cell-line-1.13511
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2013/03/24/the-henrietta-lacks-genome-consent-trust-and-common-decency/

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