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    In this final episode of our series on Alzheimer's Disease, we discuss some of the alternate hypotheses for what actually causes and drives progression of Alzheimer's Disease, if not amyloid beta. What other ideas are some scientists working th
    I don't know if y'all have heard or not, but a month ago the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, the first one in a couple of decades. This approval was met with the resignation of some members of the FDA's own scienti
    One of the top killers of people over the age of 65, Alzheimer's Disease is the target of cutting edge pharmaceutical research and basic science. What do we already know about the symptoms and their biological causes? As it turns out, there is
    Ad Link: https://omio.sjv.io/c/2544961/1078765/7385Last week we discussed how someone could go about cloning something, but this week we dive into the WHY. Maybe there is no particularly good reason to do reproductive cloning for humans, but w
    Ad Link: https://omio.sjv.io/c/2544961/1078765/7385Jurassic Park! Dolly the Sheep! Mammoths! Cloning went from science fiction to science, but maybe had fallen a bit out of vogue for a while? But some other concepts that can include cloning te
    Ad link: https://omio.sjv.io/c/2544961/1078765/7385Back from the brief interruption of our allergies series to celebrate our 100th episode, we're wrapping things up by talking about treatments for allergies and what scientists have been cookin
    The 100th episode! Woo, we did it everyone! Thank you for listening to the podcast! This episode, Sean released his grip on the reins and let Nathan and Stacey pick topics to discuss, and so this episode is about:The History of the Number Zero
    Ad URL: https://baxterblueglasses.pxf.io/c/2544961/1031264/11471Okay, so you have allergies, your friends have allergies, your enemies have allergies -- why does everyone seem to be allergic to stuff nowadays? Are we more allergic to things th
    Ad URL: https://baxterblueglasses.pxf.io/c/2544961/1031264/11471Asthma! Hives! Hay Fever! Such a wide variety of allergic responses -- what do they have in common? Surprisingly a huge amount! This episode we get into the biological details of
    Ad URL: https://baxterblueglasses.pxf.io/c/2544961/1031264/11471Everyone knows about allergies! But, at the same time, hives seem very different from asthma, and both seem different from seasonal allergies. What is going on? On this first epis
    Ad URL: https://baxterblueglasses.pxf.io/c/2544961/1031264/11471We’re back to discuss some more stuff about that spicy burny feeling! Our first spicy episode (Ep. 94) was focused on capsaicin, but that isn’t the only game in town! What are som
    Ad Link: https://baxterblueglasses.pxf.io/c/2544961/1031264/11471Happy May the Fourth! Would it be possible to build a real lightsaber, just like what they have in the movies? Probably not! But the things keeping us from getting to have our ve
    https://baxterblueglasses.pxf.io/c/2544961/1031264/11471 The AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccines have been in the news recently, suspected of causing a rare blood clotting issue in a small number of people who receive them. What i
    Why can newts grow back part of their spine and brain while we're walking around unable to even heal a broken heart!? Even amongst us tetrapods, the ability to regenerate varies wildly! Learn how amphibians regenerate their body parts, how liza
    Last week we talked about hydra and planarians, which you can slice and dice into little bits and all the bits will regrow into new little jabronis! But they're pretty distant from us on the evolutionary tree, so how about we get a little close

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