Audiommunity
A podcast about our bodies' never-ending fight with the outside world
- Update frequency
- every 25 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Big if true
Someone made an AI-based "virtual lab" to engineer nanobodies -
is this a paradigm shift in how we do science,
or a transpararent and cynical effort to slurp up all of the citations for being first?
…
01:18:12 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Evolution - it's a hell of a drug
Bacteria have immune systems? Even adaptive immune systems? And autoimmunity?
Well... sort of
01:04:34 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
Why don't you go stain a brain?
Matt and Kevin discuss a new paper about the "subfornical organ"
which (once again) undermines the idea of immune privilage,
and also points to an interesting evolutionary question:
why would T-cells…
01:16:24 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
Hypercube in the common parlance
Think vaccines aren't important?
Kate, Kevin, and Matt discuss a paper modeling just how wrong you are -
that is, unless you don't mind children dying.
01:08:35 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
Sense of adventure
Matt and Kevin speak with Abbie Smith,
an assistant professor at Emory's Hope Clinic,
about the current state of American biomedical science.
01:06:44 |
Mon 26 May 2025
Ban the Lomb-Scargle
I'm certain that what you've really been missing in these dark times
is two guys mansplaining menstruation...but also cool immunology!
01:03:36 |
Tue 06 May 2025
It is a problem to encounter LPS in your eye
In this episode, we're talking about a strange phenomenon where the immune system
seems to intentionally shuttle certain microbes from the gut to lymph nodes and the spleen.
01:16:48 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Oh no, it rhymes!
In this episode, we're talking about the OAS-RNaseL virus-sensing pathway,
and the passage of its product, 2,5-oligoadenylate, through gap junctions.
01:21:50 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Mice touching grass
How does "rewilding" mice change their immune system? Also, an interview with an organizer of the Atlanta Stand Up for Science march!
02:07:06 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
One hundred times mosquito, by mass
In this episode, we're talking itch, and the sweet sweet relief you get when degranulating your mast cells.
01:17:46 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
A blacksmith that decides to make wheels
Are you bleak, disenchanted, stressed out, and unhappy?
No, we're not talking (only) about US politics,
we're talking about Postdocs!
And about a new paper showing how academic success
is linked to…
01:22:59 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Camilla's Science is Cursed
I swear, we know how to count; this episode was originally recorded back in January, but Camilla's audio file was weirdly corrupted. And in this attempt, Chadene's computer exploded, but we soldiered…
01:06:26 |
Mon 20 Aug 2018
Not an accurate representation of grad school
In this episode, Chadene, Kate and Kevin discuss Kate's recently published paper about how STING, once thought to be involved only in defense against DNA viruses, actually slows RNA virus replication…
01:22:19 |
Mon 28 May 2018
Two Bucket Disease
In this episode, we're talking about *Salmonella*, and the peculiar way in which it tries to keep you eating to keep you alive. Who knew pathogens could be so kind?
01:08:01 |
Sat 07 Apr 2018
No Drop Shadows on Error Bars
In this episode, Kevin and Camilla discuss *Salmonella* virulence,* and how different strains alter the immunogenicity of pathogens. Oh, and Kate's here too... KATE'S BACK!! WOO!! Dr. Franz has a new…
01:12:32 |
Mon 26 Feb 2018
Giant Bag of Autoimmunity
Today (well, three weeks ago), Matt and Kevin talked about epitope spreading in Lupus, and a ton of crazy mouse models that allowed researchers to dissect the way a single auto-reactive B-cell clone …
00:56:45 |
Mon 22 Jan 2018
Macaque Prison Gangs
In this episode, we're talking cure for the common cold... or at least, a vaccine for it. Also, Kevin and Matt read the wrong paper, Chadene corrects Kevin's pronunciation of her name (again!) and we…
01:03:33 |
Sat 23 Dec 2017
Lies and Magic
In this episode, we're talking cancer, checkpoint blockade and poop - what's not to love? Also, Camilla is the only one drinking, Matt thinks the study needs more mice, and it took Kevin an extra 2 h…
01:17:03 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
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