Nels and Vincent discuss the molecular and genetic origins of sex-linked orange coat color in cats.
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Nels – AI takes up science podcasting
Vincent – Humans evolved for distance running – but ancestor ‘Lucy’ didn’t go far or fast
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Nels and Vincent review the identification of a novel virus associated with the pathogen Plasmodium knowlsei and which is part part of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon.
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Nels – The peace of wild things, poem by Wendell Berry
Vincent – All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA
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Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of eukaryotes, with contributions from at least 3 bacteria (alphaproteobacteria) and a large contribution from DNA viruses with large genomes.
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Nels – Pathoplexus.org
Vincent – Can science cure its addiction to plastic?
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Nels and Vincent explain how homology searches of anti-phage systems in eukaryotic genomes can be used to discover proteins of the human immune system.
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Nels – Pathoplexus.org
Vincent – Can science cure its addiction to plastic?
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Nels and Vincent look at how plant prickles, sharp epidermal projections that provide defense from predators and other advantages, arose by convergent evolution, the emergence of analogous traits in distantly related species.
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Nels – Trees as a metaphor to understand relationships in biology
Vincent – Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health
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Nels and Vincent discuss the genome sequence of an ancient wooly mammoth, which shows that the three-dimensional architecture of the DNA can persist after 50,000 years.
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Nels – Mysterious SARS-CoV-2 variants showing up in sewer samples
Vincent – ‘Cocaine sharks’ found in waters off Brazil
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Nels and Vincent explore a direct experimental test of Ohno’s Hypothesis, which states that gene duplication can help genes tolerate new mutations and thus facilitates the evolution of new phenotypes.
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Nels – Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity
Vincent – Is science’s dominant funding model broken?
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Nels and Vincent explain how deep genomics of macroalgae illuminate multiple paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity.
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Nels – 12-sided Roman relic baffles archaeologists, spawns countless theories
Vincent – TWiEVO 11: Microbial accomplices in multicellularity and the follow up Synergistic Cues from Diverse Bacteria Enhance Multicellular Development in a Choanoflagellate
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Nels and Vincent review the genetic basis for tail-loss evolution in humans and apes.
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Nels – Will Brie and Camembert Cheeses Go Extinct?
Vincent – A True Human Tail in a Neonate: Case report and literature review
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Nels and Vincent reveal how electric organ discharge from the electric eel facilitates the introduction of DNA into teleost larvae.
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Nels – “The Jump” quilt by Cristina Arcenegui Bono
Vincent – T4 bacteriophage art object and Gwenbeads Etsy shop
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Rich Condit joins Nels and Vincent at the Science Mill in Johnson City, Texas, where Director of STEM Education Jeehyun Park talks about the goals of the childrens’ museum.
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Guest: Jeehyun Park
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Nels – Science Mill: More Than a Museum and Elde Lab Video
Rich – The Moon May Get Its Own Time Zone (Claire Fahy, NYT 3/7/2023)
Vincent – SXSW Session “From Adversary to Ally: Reimagining Viruses as Medicines“
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Nels and Vincent discuss how behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies.
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Nels – Fungi (lichens) in Space
Vincent – Polar bear energetic and behavioral strategies on land with implications for surviving the ice-free period
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Nels and Vincent review a study of the key processes required for the different stages of fungal carnivory by a nematode-trapping fungus.
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Nels – Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity
Vincent – Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers
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