Episode 31 - For Whom The Nobel Tolls

Show notes:

In the show, The Bio Busters professors, Dr. A, Dr. C, and Dr. K, discuss updates to the coronavirus pandemic and talk about some of the science behind this year’s Nobel Prizes. They also discuss a potential new human organ! Keep the discussion and comments going on the iTunes review section, or feel free to e-mail the podcast with future show ideas and thoughts on the current show.

 

Music by Bahaa Naamani

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References:

CRISPR/Cas9

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/popular-chemistryprize2020.pdf

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/advanced-chemistryprize2020.pdf

Hepatitis

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/press-medicine2020.pdf

“New” Salivary Glands

https://www.sciencealert.com/chance-discovery-reveals-mysterious-organ-lurking-in-human-head-missed-for-centuries

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167814020308094

Cryptococcus gattii

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/8/08-1384_article

Phage therapy

https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2017-04-25-novel-phage-therapy-saves-patient-with-multidrug-resistant-bacterial-infection.aspx