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
Herpes vaccine, and flies with brain damage
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about herpes, breweries, model organisms, social interactions in rats and traumatic brain injuries in flies. Get the references and the transcripts for th…
00:29:10 |
Thu 16 Apr 2015
TB, and a Handshake
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about TB, HIV, social behaviour in ants, genetics in baboons and a surprising twist to the handshake. Get the references and the transcripts for this prog…
00:26:21 |
Mon 09 Mar 2015
Stress, fertility and remote-controlled sperm
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about controlling sperm by optogenetics, hibernation, body clocks, enzyme structure, and a way to overcome stress-induced infertility. Get the references …
00:26:28 |
Fri 06 Feb 2015
Synthetic cells, antivirals and sex pheromones
n this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about reproducibility, drug resistance, cells without walls, gene transfer, interspecies signalling, and stem cells. Get the references and the transcripts…
00:34:20 |
Tue 23 Dec 2014
Flu, Cannabis and HIV
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about influenza pandemics, eating too much, cannabis and the brain, HIV cure research, and the evolution of sea squirts... Get the references and the tran…
00:30:06 |
Fri 31 Oct 2014
Cost of corruption, and Ebola
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about the spread of the Ebola virus, the financial costs of research misconduct, aging in yeast, grooming in flies, and symbiosis between bacteria and fun…
00:31:40 |
Mon 29 Sep 2014
Making blind mice see and mosquitoes resistant to malaria
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about using photographs to diagnose rare genetic disorders, an unexpected benefit of exercise, hybridizing fish species, the mysteries of the MECP2 gene, …
00:31:11 |
Wed 30 Jul 2014
Why we don't (often) bite our tongues
In this episode of the eLife podcast, the neuroscience of chewing, African sleeping sickness, skin cancer, and an ancient protein complex called TSET. eLife editor-in-chief Randy Schekman also shares…
00:29:32 |
Tue 10 Jun 2014
Pain, gene therapy, and regenerating worms
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about neuropathic pain, gene therapy, insulin production, ageing in worms, and how flatworms grow new body parts. Get the references and the transcripts f…
00:30:32 |
Tue 29 Apr 2014
Radiation, Anti-aphrodisiacs and Glowing Squid
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about the mating habits of flies, radiation resistance in bacteria, how insects learned to smell, and the Hawaiian bobtail squid... Get the references and…
00:22:27 |
Sun 30 Mar 2014
Redeye, Spies and Bacteria
In this episode of the eLife podcast we learn more about sleep, super Spy chaperones, swimming bacteria, orphan genes and the neuroscience of birdsong. Get the references and the transcripts for this…
00:30:08 |
Fri 28 Feb 2014
Rats won't rat on rats
In this episode of the eLife podcast we discuss ants, rats, sharks and rays, and the pathogen that causes corn smut in maize. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked…
00:28:08 |
Fri 31 Jan 2014
Sedatives, Maths and Evolution
In this episode of the eLife Podcast, the growing problem of drug resistance, severe brain damage, sugar versus sweetener, public dilemmas, and the evolution of translation... Get the references and …
00:29:01 |
Mon 06 Jan 2014
Bacteria and Rheumatoid Arthritis
In this episode of the eLife podcast we discuss doing protein crystallography with electrons, the discovery of a receptor for carbon dioxide, new insights into arthritis, how the brain responds to a …
00:28:42 |
Fri 29 Nov 2013
Human Sperm, Gut Bugs and Decomposition
In this issue of the eLife podcast we discuss how chimpanzees use conceptual metaphors, the hyperactivation of spermatozoa, the use of bacteria to estimate the time of death, stem cells and smoking, …
00:30:56 |
Wed 30 Oct 2013
Undead Cells
In this issue of the eLife podcast we discuss how flatworms can grow new heads and tails, how photosynthesis has evolved over time, social interactions between mice, the properties of "undead" cells,…
00:29:42 |
Sun 06 Oct 2013
Now hear this!
The cocktail party effect and how the brain decides which sounds to attend to, genes dismissed as dead relics turn out to play significant roles in inflammation, iPS cells reproduce degenerative reti…
00:34:18 |
Thu 15 Aug 2013
Plants keep Thyme, cancer drug resistance and clear corneas
How plants do molecular mathematics to thyme their starch consumption, how cancers evolve resistance to chemotherapy and how to combat it, how the retina and cornea keep themselves clear of blood ves…
00:33:48 |
Mon 15 Jul 2013
Multicellular life, potato blight and Hepatitis B
How multicellular life began, museum specimens surrender the identity of the bug behind the Irish potato famine, the Hepatitis B and D virus receptor discovered, why fog clouds driver judgement and w…
00:40:58 |
Sat 15 Jun 2013
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