Recent Episodes
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Cleaning Up Plastics with Microbial Help
Microplastics and nanoplastics are literally everywhere and yet, we continue to produce 300 million tons of plastic every year and by 2060, that number will triple.
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A Promising Male Contraceptive
After decades of research, men could have their own version of birth control pills if this potential drug makes it to the market.
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Another Cause of Alzheimers
In 1906, a psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer described to a group of German physicians a peculiar patient he had been treating. The woman developed paranoia that progressed quickly, and that was the first description of what we now call Alzheimer's disease or AD, aptly named after him. After she died, Alzheimer did an autopsy and found abnormal patterns we now know as plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that may contribute to AD.
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Interorgan Communication Keeps Us Young
We give our brains much of the credit for controlling the organs in our body and rightfully so. But new studies reveal the communication is far from one-way. Nerve networks or molecules in our organs are constantly sending back signals to “alert” the brain of what's happening which optimizes their performance. The brain rules but other organs talk back.
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The Place for Ultimate Connections
The brain is by far our most complex organ. It's fair to say there's so much to learn that we don't know what we don't know. One new study involves a tiny piece of brain tissue sample taken from the cortex of an epilepsy patient. The cortex is where learning, sensory processing, and problem-solving happens.
