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A podcast about your genes and the people who study them. Track art by Caroline Hu, https://www.hudrewthis.com/

Episodes

  1. Adrianna San Roman on sex, gender, and sports

    03/24/2021

    Adrianna San Roman on sex, gender, and sports

    Biology and culture collide! We discuss the intersection of sex, gender, and sports with Dr. Adrianna San Roman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge who studies sex chromosome aneuploidy. Adrianna first walks us through the biological basis of sex and explains why it is more complicated than just male and female. Definitions in place, we then talk about the cases of Dutee Chand and Caster Semenya, Olympic athletes who have been banned from competition due to elevated testosterone levels. You’ll be Sry if you miss this one!

    46 min
  2. Emily Nelson on the COVID-19 Literature Surveillance Team

    05/13/2020

    Emily Nelson on the COVID-19 Literature Surveillance Team

    Over 200 papers on COVID-19 are published every day! In this episode we chat with Emily Nelson, PhD, about her work on the COVID-19 Literature Surveillance Team (https://www.covid19lst.org/), a group of 50 individuals who are collecting, annotating, and summarizing the daily deluge of papers. Emily’s work with COVID LST uniquely positions her to give us a 20,000-feet view of trends in the literature, including what the science is telling us (and not telling us) about serology test development, whether we can get COVID-19 twice, and potential treatments on the horizon.

    56 min
  3. Xueting Qiu on the latest insights from 10,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes

    04/30/2020

    Xueting Qiu on the latest insights from 10,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes

    Returning champion Xueting Qiu tells us about the newest findings from analyzing 10,000+ SARS-CoV-2 genomes. We discuss what the genomes tell us about the origins and spread of the outbreak across the US, how fast the virus is mutating, whether different 'strains' of the virus exist, and - the question on everyone's mind - how we can reopen the country.

    30 min
  4. Xueting Qiu with a coronavirus update

    03/15/2020

    Xueting Qiu with a coronavirus update

    Xueting Qiu, a molecular epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, revisits AATB to talk about the current state of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and why we needed to start social distancing yesterday.

    32 min
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A podcast about your genes and the people who study them. Track art by Caroline Hu, https://www.hudrewthis.com/

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  • Creator
    thatbase
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2021
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
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