Daily Discoveries

Sound Bite: A Podcast Network from the UW Daily
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Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast from The Daily. Each week hosts Oskar and Sanjana re-cap this week’s science news in one distilled episode.

  1. 05/10/2023

    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 […]

    39 min

  2. 04/17/2023

    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

  3. 02/27/2023

    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.

    15 min

  4. 02/16/2023

    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

  5. 01/23/2023

    Potential Hair Loss Treatment

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

    20 min

  6. 01/09/2023

    Sweet New Discoveries

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

    18 min

  7. 01/03/2023

    Nobel Prize Recap

    This week on Daily Discoveries, Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden discuss the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize, and what their discoveries mean for both their fields and science as a whole.

    26 min

  8. 12/06/2022

    Growing Soft Robots

    Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden discuss a new innovation that allows for soft robots to grow by themselves.

    14 min
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Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast from The Daily. Each week hosts Oskar and Sanjana re-cap this week’s science news in one distilled episode.

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  • Creator
    Sound Bite: A Podcast Network from the UW Daily
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Daily Discoveries