The eLife Podcast
The eLife Podcast: outstanding research in life science and biomedicine.
- Update frequency
- every 44 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Animal handedness, diabetes and dinosaurs
This month, diabetes and the body clock, the antibodies we raise to Covid-19 vaccines versus infection, dinosaurs armoured like tanks, baboons catching up on sleep, and how language evolution goes ha…
00:36:22 |
Fri 06 May 2022
Human birth trigger genes, and clam cancer
This month, the genes linked to human birth onset, signs hunter gatherers already had a taste for cereals before farming came along, how sunflowers balance UV protection, aridity resistance and attra…
00:36:57 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Sediba's backbone, and antibacterial bacteria
This month, the bones missing from Australopithecus sediba's backbone are uncovered, but what do they reveal about this ancient hominid's posture? Also, why a link to the nervous system is crucial fo…
00:38:14 |
Mon 07 Feb 2022
Can Corals Resist Bleaching?
This month, corals that can resist bleaching, signs that the human immune system went up a gear about 8000 years ago, documenting plant cells with an ambitious initiative to generate an atlas all the…
00:33:51 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Does stress turn your hair grey?
This month, mobile phones are an excellent proxy to test for Covid-19, stress and hair going grey, signs that junk food inflammes the immune system, what makes rats want to help other rats, and the e…
00:33:47 |
Mon 18 Oct 2021
The widowhood effect, and clapped out baboons
This month, male baboons pay a high ageing price for climbing the social ladder, evidence for the reality of the widowhood effect whereby breaking a pair-bond provokes cancer growth, a new way to tra…
00:34:30 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Motherless gorillas and how hummingbirds hum
This month: how hummingbirds hum, how elephants evolved anti-cancer genes so they can sustain big bodies, gorillas that grow up without their mothers, and why deforestation causes peaks and then trou…
00:27:17 |
Fri 28 May 2021
Psychedelic drugs and river water bugs
This month: the first self-blinded study into microdosing psychedelics, using DNA analysis to understand what bacteria is in river water, and what's the evidence for parasites preventing inflammatory…
00:31:26 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Egyptian baboons and overlooked COVID genes
This month: how a dose of magnesium can improve long-term memory, scientists scrutinise the world's sourdough microbes, and evidence that we're overlooking important COVID-relevant genes. Plus, shark…
00:35:44 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Sea slugs and anti-sickness drugs
This month we hear about the animals that turn their dinner into solar panels, the first images of anti-nausea drug molecules engaging with their receptors, and what thousands of you told eLife about…
00:32:47 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
AI for infertility, and scar-free healing
This month we hear about an artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough for infertility, how ketamine can mimic some of the decision-making difficulties seen in schizophrenia, a new device to observe a…
00:31:09 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Prostate cancer prediction and bonobo culture
This month on the eLife podcast, artificial intelligence reveals a better test for prostate cancer, is the brain stuffed with neuronal stem cells, bonobos with cultural preferences, and why some inse…
00:35:20 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
Ears, hearts, and halting Huntington's
This month on the eLife Podcast we hear about why whale-watching boats are just too noisy, how oily fish combats heart failure, breakthroughs in halting Huntington's disease, and how your wiggling ea…
00:32:35 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
Sugar on the brain, HIV, and science sex bias
This month on the eLife Podcast we look at how sugar takes away the pleasure of consuming and makes you eat more, we find out what loneliness does to the brain, uncover new insights into how HIV infe…
00:36:25 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Sparrows, cavefish and fighting fungus
This month we explore how genetic plasticity enables sparrows to live alongside us and fish to evolve rapidly to life in caves. We also hear why "Test! Test! Test!" is so critical to safe healthcare …
00:31:25 |
Mon 01 Jun 2020
Why do bats carry so many dread diseases?
This month, why screening at airports for Covid19 is unlikely to work, how flight forced bat viruses to become virulent, MRI scans of throat singers reveals how they produce multiple sounds at the sa…
00:29:36 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
The plants with three parents
This month, new hearing tests to spot those likely to struggle with speech in noisy environments, how your DNA is at risk from hacking on a public database, plants with three parents, researchers rec…
00:35:47 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
Zika immunity and falling body temperatures
Have these paralysed patients helped to reveal the brain basis of why we gesticulate when we talk? Also, new insights into how the body clock keeps track of the seasons, signs that immunity to Zika v…
00:35:56 |
Thu 06 Feb 2020
Tardigrades and the Ten Commandments
What accounts for the bomb-proof biology of the tardigrade? How do ants avoid traffic jams? Why thou shalt not abuse statistics in 2020, do badgers transmit bovine TB to cows, and is mental illness o…
00:31:31 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
How many new mutations from Mum and Dad?
This month, join Chris Smith to hear how sleep deprivation sends your endocannabinoids skyrocketing and triggers a tendency to binge, how many new genetic mutations you inherit from your parents, the…
00:35:41 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
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