80 episodes

Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast about recent science news from around the world, hosted by University of Washington undergraduate students Sanjana Chava, Oskar Haeberlein, and Hayden Henry.

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Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast about recent science news from around the world, hosted by University of Washington undergraduate students Sanjana Chava, Oskar Haeberlein, and Hayden Henry.

    RF Diffusion and Protein Design

    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 […]

    • 38 min
    Assessing Binding Capabilities of s.pneumoniae

    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.

    • 17 min
    Manipulating Microbiomes

    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.

    • 14 min
    Human Cortical Organoids

    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.

    • 21 min
    Potential Hair Loss Treatment

    Potential Hair Loss Treatment

    In this episode, Hayden, Sanjana, and Oskar discuss a paper that explores potential alopecia treatments using machine learning.

    • 20 min
    Sweet New Discoveries

    Sweet New Discoveries

    Sanjana, Hayden, and Oskar dive into how scientists are turning to the natural world to discover new non-caloric sweeteners

    • 17 min

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